Northern Cardinal, shown as part of the Museum of Northern History’s Third Annual Juried Exhibition, “The Art of Birds: Watching” (located in Kirkland Lake, June to July 2026)…
Our Sitting Place and Their Sitting Place, shown as part of the 2026 Erin Arts Festival…
Artist Statement: I live on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit, part of the Anishinaabe Nation. Across myriad Indigenous cultures, the land and water are posited as animate spirits, with rocks associated with time and memory. In his essay, “Ancestral Waters,” Anishinaabe writer Waubgeshig Rice discusses his grandmothers, who instilled in him how all are “connected to the land and water.” Taking a mosaic-like approach, the depicted figures are integrated into the rocky shoreline and therefore in conversation with the land; though they are still, this is not still life: witness the undulating linework and emanating energy from the water.
Artist Statement: In Walden (1854), Henry David Thoreau writes of the importance of nature to the transcendental and explores the necessity of deliberately examining what he calls “the essential facts of life.” My work seeks to capture the possibility for everyday moments of (deliberate) reflection through the act of sitting and observing. By choosing a "sitting place," the depicted figures have stepped out of the frantic pace of industrial life to engage in what Thoreau called "reverie." Depicted within a heavy yet natural framing of rocks and trees, the figures also invite viewers to view the world through an ecological lens.
Imagination Station, part of a solo display of my work in the Mayor’s Showcase at Town Hall, Halton Hills (February to May 2026) …
Undersea Royalty, shown as part of “The Colour of Water” Exhibition (March to May 2026) in the Helson Gallery in Halton Hills…
Pieces shown as part of the 2025 Halton Hills Cultural Centre and Helson Gallery Holiday Show & Sale…
Great Blue Heron, shown as part of the 2025 “Art for the Birds” exhibition in the Sisnett Lobby at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre…
Fallen Angel, shown as part of the 2025 “Shifting Grounds” exhibition in The Helson Gallery in Halton Hills…
Artist Statement: Given a shifting, uncertain – and, perhaps, dystopian – future, we sometimes look to be saved by divine-like intervention and heroic feats. Billionaires, who increasingly exert influence over industry and the public consciousness, promise peace but sow division while owing their vast wealth to colonialist legacies and the exploitation of developing nations. Aboard private jets and massive yachts, they promise an escape from environmental devastation through space exploration. Inheriting wealth while preaching meritocracy, these hoarders of wealth could lift billions out of poverty if taxed, and yet the gap between rich and poor expands. The most vulnerable – those from the Global South, Black, Indigenous, and racialized peoples, women, and children – are most impacted. My work offers that we can not be saved by some awesome and benevolent force, but that a better world is possible from below, with everyday and ordinary people coordinating and organizing for extraordinary change.
Mural completed in May of 2025: After a Pride poster was defaced at a local school, I was asked and honoured to paint something bigger, bolder, and prouder! Student leaders’ handprints completed the piece…
Pieces shown as part of the 2025 Square Foot Show in The Helson Gallery (in cooperation with Palette and Pencil Plus Guild of Credit Valley Artisans) in Halton Hills…
Pieces shown as part of the 2024 Halton Hills Cultural Centre and Helson Gallery Holiday Show & Sale…
Pieces shown as part of the 2024 Square Foot Show in The Helson Gallery (in cooperation with Palette and Pencil Plus Guild of Credit Valley Artisans) in Halton Hills…
Home is…, shown as part of the 2024 “Strictly Local” exhibition at the Helson Gallery in the Halton Hills Cultural Centre…
Artist Statement: For me and my family, Halton Hills is home, and home is belonging, community, and freedom. It is both a material experience and a feeling shared with others. I here imagine home as the realization of Fannie Lou Hamer’s “nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” I imagine the rejection of an emphasis on individual advancement and profit in favour of a commitment to a communal ethic of responsibility. I imagine a world that upholds Indigenous rights. Home is a place to be defended and for which we all should care.
The Greatest and Miles & Peter, shown as part of the 2023 Halton Hills Cultural Centre and Helson Gallery Holiday Show & Sale…
The Owl is a Judge, shown as part of the 2023 “Art for the Birds” exhibition in the Sisnett Lobby at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre…
Artist Statement: Shown as part of the 2023 “Art for the Birds” exhibition in the Sisnett Lobby at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre, The Owl is a Judge depicts the Great Horned Owl who, while the most common type of owl in North America, is anything but ordinary. Also known as the “tiger of the air,” it is a fierce and indiscriminate predator equipped with excellent night vision and strong talons. Wendy Makoons Geniusz, author of “Gookooko’oog: Owls and Their Role in Anishinaabe Culture” (2008), investigates the origins of the Owl as a creature to be feared; she concludes that “Gookooko’oo [the Owl] is not someone to fear, and that those who fear this being only understand a small portion of Anishinaabe teachings about Gookooko’oo. . . . In reality, Gookooko’oo is used by parents to scare unruly children, is appropriated by evil doers, is a messenger who can give us important warnings, is someone who helps those who have already passed on to reach the other side, and is someone who can be our benefactor” (241). Given its many personas, the Great Horned Owl is here depicted in varying renditions meant to represent its complicated symbolic relationship with humankind.
The Traveller is a series of mixed media images depicting the subject, in the foreground, venturing into new worlds and perspectives…
Artist Statement: Shown as part of the 2023 “Locally Grown: Further Afield” exhibition at the Helson Gallery in the Halton Hills Cultural Centre, The Traveller: Other-Worldly Views depicts the subject, in the foreground, on a journey wherein the world appears both familiar and strange. It is meant to capture how, as we move Further Afield, we might examine and question conventional assumptions about the world, many of which are deeply entrenched in our ways of being and thinking. Such inquiry can be an exhilarating, but also a disorienting process. The piece suggests that travel, whether locally or abroad, whether physically or mentally, allows for expanded horizons, experience to be (re-)contextualized, and the taken-for-granted to be acknowledged and challenged.
