Contemporary Fine Art
Household Elements
46" by 37"
Sooke Fine Art Show 2023
sfas@sookefinearts.com
Earth as household. Elements sustained in constant motion. Humans as householders on earth, under one roof. The unspoken, moving parts of all living things orbiting one another. Layered with craft-closet materials from when my kids were little: incomplete and mismatched decks of cards, plastic googly eyes, flash cards from French class. Material goods (and their relationship to one another) reconfigured to express human skill and imagination in order to sustain one another.
The Breathing Field
29" by 52"
Earth breathing, like mineral content of earth, from deep within, brought to the surface of the breathing field
29" by 52"
Earth breathing, like mineral content of earth, from deep within, brought to the surface of the breathing field
In The Midst Of Listening
27" by 27" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow Cedar Frame
Visibility
27" by 27" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame
The marine weather radio reports visibility in percentages. To hear this from shore means little but out on the water in the fog of Clayoquot sound, even with GPS, you often are not where you thought you were. In the fog, there can be a sense of disorientation and it has proven true through a global pandemic. This piece was finished in Spring 2022, when a way through became visible and even measurable, if only for a pulse.
Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art
27" by 27" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame
The marine weather radio reports visibility in percentages. To hear this from shore means little but out on the water in the fog of Clayoquot sound, even with GPS, you often are not where you thought you were. In the fog, there can be a sense of disorientation and it has proven true through a global pandemic. This piece was finished in Spring 2022, when a way through became visible and even measurable, if only for a pulse.
Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art
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Moonlit Etchings
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Ordinary Time (1) Nunatak
27" x 27", Mixed Media Acylic Reclaimed cedar frame
Ordinary Time (1) Working title, Geologic Time, explores our perception of time in the midst of massive climate change. Are we special? Do we matter? In geologic time, the answers to these questions are both true: we are special, and we ultimately don’t matter. Human existence is the meeting point of these two contradictory truths. Maintaining agency and observation; both pilot and passenger on a continuum of earth’s constant geological change and biological evolution.
Federation Gallery
Ordinary Time (1) Nunatak
27" x 27", Mixed Media Acylic Reclaimed cedar frame
Ordinary Time (1) Working title, Geologic Time, explores our perception of time in the midst of massive climate change. Are we special? Do we matter? In geologic time, the answers to these questions are both true: we are special, and we ultimately don’t matter. Human existence is the meeting point of these two contradictory truths. Maintaining agency and observation; both pilot and passenger on a continuum of earth’s constant geological change and biological evolution.
Federation Gallery
The Trees' Time
27" by 27" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow Cedar Frame
The mark-making of sun and shadowed places as the trees ready themselves for winter–rugged, open and simple. The trees worked and saved for months and now there is rest–a quiet that shapes the West Coast winter landscape.
Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art
27" by 27" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow Cedar Frame
The mark-making of sun and shadowed places as the trees ready themselves for winter–rugged, open and simple. The trees worked and saved for months and now there is rest–a quiet that shapes the West Coast winter landscape.
Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art
Making Space
Sooke Fine Art Show 2022
sfas@sookefinearts.com
Frame is reclaimed red cedar, Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) Joel Gray.
Sooke Fine Art Show 2022
sfas@sookefinearts.com
Frame is reclaimed red cedar, Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) Joel Gray.
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Feathers Of Mist
Sooke Fine Art Show 2022
sfas@sookefinearts.com
Bird song from the branches of ancient Sitka, shrouded in fog, along the shores of Chesterman Beach.
Reclaimed red cedar, Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) frame
Feathers Of Mist
Sooke Fine Art Show 2022
sfas@sookefinearts.com
Bird song from the branches of ancient Sitka, shrouded in fog, along the shores of Chesterman Beach.
Reclaimed red cedar, Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) frame
Sky Window
How rain gets in when wildfire dominates sky (Series 1 of 3) 14" x 12" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame 2023 Abstracted Exhibition Purchase: sales@artists.ca Federation Gallery |
Sky Window 2
How rain gets in when wildfire dominates sky (Series 2 of 3) 22" x 15" Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame |
Sky Window 3
How rain gets in when wildfire dominates sky
35.5" x 16.5" (series 3 of 3)
Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame
2023 Abstracted Exhibition
Purchase: sales@artists.ca
Federation Gallery
How rain gets in when wildfire dominates sky
35.5" x 16.5" (series 3 of 3)
Mixed Media Acrylic/Yellow cedar frame
2023 Abstracted Exhibition
Purchase: sales@artists.ca
Federation Gallery
Strung Together By An Increment Of Time
Winter:
Guiding Us Thru All We Can't Fathom
15.5" by 48" 2022
Mixed Media Acrylic/Reclaimed western red cedar frame
DRAW Gallery
Guiding Us Thru All We Can't Fathom
15.5" by 48" 2022
Mixed Media Acrylic/Reclaimed western red cedar frame
DRAW Gallery
The Wilderness Within
The Shape Of Prayer
27.5" by 27"/mixed media acrylic
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Uncharted Wonder (1)
26" by 26" mixed media acrylic
reclaimed redwood frame
Published 2021 by The Hopper Magazine
The Maas Building
Uncharted Wonder (1)
26" by 26" mixed media acrylic
reclaimed redwood frame
Published 2021 by The Hopper Magazine
The Maas Building
Uncharted Wonder (2)
26" by 26" mixed media acrylic
reclaimed redwood frame
Published 2021 by The Hopper Magazine
The Maas Building
26" by 26" mixed media acrylic
reclaimed redwood frame
Published 2021 by The Hopper Magazine
The Maas Building
Uncharted Wonder (3)
26" by 26" mixed media acrylic
reclaimed redwood frame
Published 2021 by The Hopper Magazine
The Maas Building
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Far Reaching 32" by 9 1/2" Mixed Media/Yellow Cedar Frame The landscape confronting us in the middle of a pandemic, in lockdown, faces masked, gripped with uncertainty. From the vantage point of home, alarming calls on climate change were heard by all of us around the world. We found ourselves in a new and far reaching landscape; one stretching out before us--for how long? Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art |
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Windswell Mixed media/reclaimed red cedar, Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) Pacific Rim Art Society |
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November Moon
19" by 19" Mixed Media Acrylic (Frame Available Upon Request) Available For Sale/Contact Artist (Past show) Pacific Rim Arts Society |
Body Language
36" by 32" Mixed Media Acrylic |
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Where The Eyelid Closes
9" by 29" Mixed Media Acrylic |
Beacon
27” by 27” Mixed media Japanese Shou Sugi Ban (charred with fire technique) Wildfire smoke from Washington, Oregon, and California moved freely over the northern border and settled on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Small, muffled human chatter about borders closed due to Covid-19 became obsolete as wildfire smoke took no heed of arbitrary geographical lines. Signals around the globe of fire, floods, triple-digit heat became great beacons; weather warnings of outdated political notions. Tofino Gallery Of Contemporary Art |
Barometer Dropping 14" by 22" Mixed Media Acrylic |
Temperate Rainforest 22.5" by 28" Mixed Media Acrylic |
Chicken Coop
12" by 47" Mixed Media Acrylic
Days To Germination
50.5" by 20.5" |
Blossom Storm
50.5" by 20.5" |
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Climate Fire |
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We Are Held |
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