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Visual Storytelling Through Style

For many years I struggled with my art-making because my style varied so widely from day to day. In those years, I strived to find one style that would communicate everything I wanted to, in order to put my authentic self into a box with a neat label by which others could categorize me and my work.

​As a result, my development as an artist creating from authentic self was slow, meandering and trying. During that time, I focused on creating through graphic design, commission pieces, illustrations for children, and greeting cards. I found I was able to establish a degree of separation from my personal expression and the work, and thus found it easier for me to create in these ways. 

However, during Covid, I spent many long hours living alone, without seeing family or friends who were physically on the other side of the country. During this time, I worked my day job from home, and the rest of the time I painted. Difficult as it was to face, I discovered that if I am to paint in my true, authentic voice, to tell the stories that need to be told, my style will continue to change to suit the story. 

For this reason, my process centers around emotional immersion in order to visually convey my experiences, the world around us, and those from imagination, for the finished work to inspire the viewer to feel and experience what they see, make it their own, and come away from the work with a new perspective on their world, inner dialogue, or personal journey.

Through the use of style, color, pattern and form, my aim is to provide a framework for conversation and growth to support deeper relationships amongst viewers, with themselves, others and the world. This often means my work will vary on the spectrum between representational and abstract. 

Much of my subject matter centers around animals and nature, as the core of my work focuses on the impacts nature has on helping form who we are and our drives. It strives to explore the similarities between nature and the individual even within the context of a fully industrialized environment, and often the underlying, largely unnoticed interrelatedness of all things, which includes our natural world.

As is part of the natural process, as one thing passes, from its remains, new life, and substance emerges. So another strong focus in my work is autobiographical in nature, where I use line, symbol, symbolism and color to conjure a feeling and inspire an experience between my work and the viewer, using my story, which in its visual telling, has helped me work through my own emotional challenges, to create something that is beautiful, positive and strong, and that can emerge as something changed and new. ​​