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Language of Self and Family: Using reclaimed & handprinted papers, handwritten fragments, and layers of paint, these works celebrate the stories that shape our identities. Each piece invites viewers to reflect on their own memories, relationships, and sense of home.
Language of Self and Family: Using reclaimed & handprinted papers, handwritten fragments, and layers of paint, these works celebrate the stories that shape our identities. Each piece invites viewers to reflect on their own memories, relationships, and sense of home.
Garden Walk
Garden Walk
Two women find friendship in the simple pleasure of an afternoon stroll, sharing stories in the universal language of companionship while tending to both flowers and the roots of community.
mixed-media on watercolour paper
PRIVATE COLLECTION - GIFTED
Foundations
Foundations
This multimedia piece is a tribute to my father, an immigrant to Canada who arrived as a young child and dedicated his life to hard work, family, and building something meaningful. The central image is a childhood photograph of him, placed within a framework of layered elements that reflect his journey. The altered magazine text—'make a home easy, pleasant, everything good'—highlights the values he lived by: perseverance, care, and the belief that anything worth doing is worth doing well. Through collage, texture, and contrast, this work captures the essence of his legacy—a life shaped by effort, resilience, and love.
mixed-media on watercolour paper
The Daughter
The Daughter
A meditation on loss and connection, where intuitively chosen words from an old novel spiral through hair like prayers - "help," "enough," "painful," "beautiful," "agony" - while "taught," "love," "open" hover above the eye, mapping the complex geography of grief and memory.
Immersed in Word
Immersed in Word
Drowning in blue emotion, crowned with the weight of language and literature, where text becomes both burden and blessing, shaping identity through the power of the written word.
Information Overload
Information Overload
A fragmented self navigating the chaos of modern communication - where "Work," "Problems," and "Pictures" collide in a kaleidoscope of digital overwhelm.
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Comic Book Self
Comic Book Self
A self-portrait of the perpetual thinker - where the bright, chaotic fragments of comic book panels mirror the constant storm of thoughts, worries, and ideas that race through the mind at a hundred miles per hour. The wire-rimmed glasses frame a deceptively calm exterior, while the cluttered visual cacophony reveals the true nature of a mind that never stops processing, analyzing, and stewing over life's complexities.
New Ground
New Ground
A family plants roots in Canadian soil, carrying the strength of generations in their steady hands and hopeful hearts.
mixed-media on wood panel
Wonder Bread Dreams
Wonder Bread Dreams
The promise of Canada rolls past on wheels—abundance and opportunity just beyond the fields they tend with borrowed hands and boundless hope.
mixed-media on wood panel
Harvest Season
Harvest Season
The rhythm of work becomes the rhythm of home, each furrow turned bringing them closer to land they can finally call their own.
mixed-media on wood panel
Learning the Language
Learning the Language
Three young faces mask the courage it takes to belong somewhere new, where even laughter sounds different, but determination translates perfectly.
mixed-media on wood panel
The Last Walk
The Last Walk
This watercolor transfer on wood panel depicts one of the final times my parents walked together before my mother's death. My father, stooped with worry and weariness, stays a protective step behind - an ironic reversal of his usual quick pace that had always frustrated my mother. The piece captures the tender choreography of love and care, where roles shift and the one who usually leads learns to follow, ensuring safety in those precious final steps together.
The Weight of Goodbye
The Weight of Goodbye
This mixed-media piece is a reflection on grief, gratitude, and the complexities of loss. The drooping flowers symbolize both the arrival of spring and the weight of farewell, hope intertwined with sorrow. In the background, a print of the hospice where my mother spent her final days serves as a quiet foundation for the piece. That space, though filled with the pain of parting, also brought peace and comfort to my mother and our family. The layered, textured elements echo the emotional turbulence of that time, capturing both the chaos of loss and the quiet moments of grace we held onto.
The Last Cup
The Last Cup
This watercolor captures a precious final ritual - the simple act of sharing tea together on the morning before my mother's passing. Created from a photograph taken in those last tender hours at hospice, it honors the quiet intimacy of familiar gestures that carry profound weight when we know they are among our last. The cup becomes a vessel not just for tea, but for love, memory, and the bittersweet grace found in ordinary moments made sacred by time's limit.
Palimpsest (noun): something that has been written, erased, and written over again, while still bearing traces of what came before. A series of explorations of distortion, memory, and the stories that persist beneath the surface.
Palimpsest (noun): something that has been written, erased, and written over again, while still bearing traces of what came before. A series of explorations of distortion, memory, and the stories that persist beneath the surface.
Unhinged
Unhinged
Mixed Media on 36" x 36" Panel
Unhinged reflects the instability of our current moment—politically, globally, and personally. Through layered paper, fragmented text, and expressive marks, the piece captures a sense of unravelling. The word “unhinged” is both a declaration and a question: What happens when the systems we trust—internally or collectively—begin to come apart?
This work embraces tension and ambiguity. Charcoal lines twist through the chaos, while scraps of language interrupt the surface, suggesting both disruption and dialogue. The collage elements speak to media overload, fractured narratives, and the discomfort of not knowing what comes next.
Rather than offering resolution, Unhinged holds space for uncertainty. It reflects a world in flux and the resilience found in confronting that flux directly. It is a visual record of the quiet, persistent motion of a country—and a self—navigating disruption.
Excavation
Excavation
Mixed Media on Panel
This work was constructed through layering, abrasion, and retrieval—a process that mimics both geological and emotional excavation. Using collage, drawing, and the physical act of scraping and tearing into the surface, I explore how memory is layered, buried, and occasionally brought to light.
Found materials—documents, fragments of text, printed images—form a substrate of personal and collective history. The addition of deep red circular markings disrupts and punctuates the surface, suggesting emotional residue: bloodlines, wounds, targets, or symbols of cycles and recurrence. They serve as both evidence and question marks—traces of something unresolved.
Root-like forms emerge from beneath the surface, evoking anatomy, landscape, and connection. They twist and anchor the piece, holding the composition while pointing to what lies below: the unseen, the forgotten, the formative.
This piece is both a meditation on and an act of excavation—an unearthing of what has shaped us, what we choose to cover, and what insists on resurfacing.
Holding Back Is Still An Action
Holding Back Is Still An Action
Mixed-Media on watercolour paper
10" X 14"
This work explores restraint as a deliberate choice rather than an absence of action. The raised hand suggests pause, caution, and self-monitoring — the moment where instinct is checked and response is measured.
Through fragmented imagery, layered text, and a divided colour field, the figure holds tension without release. There is no collapse here, only containment. The work sits in that narrow space between impulse and intention, where holding back becomes its own form of agency.
In a time where immediacy and reaction are often rewarded, restraint feels increasingly absent, and increasingly necessary. This piece leans into a sharper, more guarded energy than my previous work, reflecting an evolving interest in control, masculinity, and the quiet power of choosing to pause.
Su-She
Su-She
Mixed-Media on paper
This piece plays with the idea of femininity as performance, and the pleasure of being underestimated. The woman appears calm, smiling, cigarette in hand, as she is approached by a hungry, mechanical presence built from expectation and control. She looks agreeable. She looks unbothered. This is deliberate.
The surrounding creature suggests systems that monitor, measure, and consume, always confident they know what they’re dealing with. Flowers, clouds, and bright colour soften the scene, offering visual reassurance. The smile does the same. But the timing is off. The gaze is steady. The cigarette feels less like habit and more like a fuse.
Surrealism stretches the moment just before impact. What looks decorative becomes strategic. What looks compliant becomes patient. The work asks what happens when a woman understands the rules well enough to use them, when she lets the machine believe it’s winning, right up until it isn’t.
She’s not panicking.
She’s counting.
Bloom & Bruise
Bloom & Bruise
A pared-down face, crowned with daisies. Purity and burden rest together here: simplicity against weight, beauty in restraint.
After Words
After Words
This work layers words and fragments, echoing how language lingers inside us. The repeated Dutch phrase, “Woorden blijven binnen” (“Words remain within”), suggests that what is said—and unsaid—shapes us deeply. The stitched lines hint at repair, but also at scars left behind.
The Art of Everyday:
The Art of Everyday:
finding beauty and meaning in ordinary moments and familiar objects.
finding beauty and meaning in ordinary moments and familiar objects.
A Little Bird Told Me
A Little Bird Told Me
Mixed-Media 10"X 10" wood panel
Composed of printed words, this robin hints at the stories we carry and the ones we quietly share. Set against an open sky, it invites viewers to pause, listen, and imagine the message this small messenger has come to deliver.
Berry Good Company
Berry Good Company
Mixed-Media 10"X 10" wood panel
Surrounded by berries and branches, this cheerful little bird reminds us that comfort is often found in simple moments. Layers of paper, paint, and printed words come together to celebrate nature, curiosity, and the joy of feeling at home.
Lisbon Reverie
Lisbon Reverie
Mixed-Media 10"X 10" wood panel
Inspired by the beauty and texture of Portugal, this collage blends architecture and florals into a dreamlike memory. Layers of transferred imagery and paint evoke the feeling of wandering old streets where every doorway and bloom tells a story.
Percolating Ideas
Percolating Ideas
Mixed-Media 10"X 10" wood panel
Built from fragments of text and everyday imagery, this playful collage celebrates the slow, creative process—proof that the best ideas, like good coffee, can't be rushed.
Travel Bot '25
Travel Bot '25
Mixed-Media 30" X 30" wood panel
This piece grew out of a trip to Portugal — planned carefully, loosely followed, and remembered in fragments. The figure at the centre is part guide, part machine, and part travel companion, moving through a sea made of maps and itinerary scraps.
The checkerboard body comes from the greasy bottom of a pizza box shared on the trip. The heart-shaped eye is the oil-stained base of a pastel de nata box, saved after a baking class and too good to throw away. Sardines — Portugal’s national dish — swim through the lower half, collaged from a flyer tucked inside a ceramic sardine bought as a souvenir, resized, repeated, and partially submerged.
Ink lines were drawn with a chopstick, my favourite tool, and a quiet nod to Ramiro Clemente, the artist whose workshop shaped the journey itself. Silver leaf marks the joints — places of movement, connection, and a little fragility.
Travel Bot '25 is about how travel actually works: part planning, part intuition, part collaboration, and part mess. Memory smooths some edges and exaggerates others, leaving behind a map that’s more emotional than accurate — and far more interesting.
Growing On Me
Growing On Me
Mixed-Media 48" X 42" wood panel
This mixed-media piece began with a long process of preparation, layering paint, creating hand-printed papers, and building acrylic “skins” that eventually became the flowers. The surface was worked and reworked, scraped back and built up again, allowing textures and fragments to emerge along the way.
At its centre sits a patterned vessel constructed from printed collage papers, grounding the composition while the looping, spiral flowers reach outward. Their forms are imperfect and playful, made from poured and dried acrylic paint that was peeled, cut, and placed onto the panel. The result is a bouquet that feels slightly unruly, part structured arrangement, part joyful improvisation.
Like many pieces in my practice, this work didn’t arrive exactly as I first imagined. Some parts feel resolved immediately; others ask for time. The background textures and the quiet strength of the vase became anchors, while the flowers introduced a burst of colour and movement that slowly began to make sense as the piece evolved.
In that way, the work reflects a familiar part of the creative process: learning to sit with uncertainty, letting a piece reveal itself gradually. Sometimes a painting doesn’t fully announce itself right away, it simply grows on you.
What Falls Away
What Falls Away
Mixed-Media 10" X 10" wood panel
This one came together through a lot of adding and taking away. Layers of collage, printed textures, and ink were built up, then partially removed, then rebuilt again. The figure slowly emerged through that process, never fully planned, more discovered along the way.
There’s a sense of things slipping or loosening here. Some shapes feel like they’re falling away, others like they’re just beginning to lift. It sits somewhere in that in-between space, where something is leaving, but not everything is gone yet.
Working on this piece felt a lot like that too, holding on, letting go, and seeing what stays.
What Falls Away Too
What Falls Away Too
Mixed-Media 10" X 10" wood panel
This piece grew from the same process of building up and taking away: layers of collage, paint, marks and imagery gradually appearing, disappearing, and finding their way back into the work.
There is something about the way things change as they begin to loosen their hold. Some things fall away quietly, while others remain, altered by what has been removed around them. The spaces left behind become part of the story too.
What Falls Away Too is about that in-between place: the things we release, the things we carry forward, and the unexpected beauty that can emerge when there is finally room for something new.
You Are Important, Notice
You Are Important, Notice
My son was living in Toronto and apparently had a serious relationship with the city's parking enforcement—they kept sending him love notes! Unfortunately, these 'important notices' kept showing up at our house, driving his dad and me a little crazy with each trip to the mailbox. This little watercolor was my way of dealing with the frustration, while having a bit of fun with the bureaucratic language. Sometimes you just have to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
Nest Things First
Nest Things First
This piece hatched from a pile of scraps and a lot of curiosity. The bird, built from hand-printed collage papers, has made herself at home in a nest stitched together from old dress patterns—because even birds deserve a bit of vintage flair. The background whispers with image transfers from old magazines, like overheard stories from another time. Nest Things First is a playful nod to finding comfort in the things we piece together—bits of history, creativity, and a good place to land.
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