Artist & Visual Arts Educator

Open air art installation in Cawthra Woods, October 2024.    

Funded by Mississauga Arts Council’s MicroGrant Program through the support of RAMA Gaming House - Charitable Gaming at City of Mississauga

I am honoured to be a recipient of both a 2023 and 2024  Spring M.A.C.  Matchmaker MicroGrant.  These funds have allowed me to create interactive indoor and outdoor public art experiences. 

Painting the Town is an artist designed  free photo booth art installation for 2024 Paint the Town Red Canada Day event in Port Credit.  It celebrates experiences that bind us together at a personal, local and national level. 

I instruct students in a variety of two and three dimensional media.   Most of my own artwork in recent years has focused upon acrylics, exterior latex murals,  and digital imaging. I am very aware of layers and creating the illusion of  shallow depth in my artwork, so my media choices are dictated by the perceptual effects I wish to achieve. 

I have been fortunate to have my efforts recognized, resulting in me receiving various awards.   Some of these include a Mississauga Matchmaker Microgrant (2023 & 2024), first place  in the Beauty of Bees Art Exhibition, Mississauga Arts Council (2022), Stonehooker Brewery beer label contest (2020), Award of Excellence (2014) and Distinction (2012 , 2016, 2019) from Peel District School Board.

Nature offers an abundance of inspiration for me.   I enjoy exploring the delicate beauty that I see in up-close examinations of flora and fauna.  Whether  I am studying the tender petals of a cherry blossom, or the wings of a dragonfly I want to show its exquisite beauty and delicate frailty.  The ephemeral quality of nature inspires me to give it permanence in my art.