Artist & Visual Arts Educator

My new mixed media art installation, Momentum, will be displayed at the Small Arms Inspection Building December 5-14, 2025 as part of the 2025 Mississauga Festival of Trees. 

I am honoured to be a 2025 Marty finalist and 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. 

I am honored to have been selected as one of the Olive Stack Gallery Artists in Residence for the year 2026.  I will have the opportunity to spend one month in Listowel, Co. Kerry Ireland, creating art in studio as I take in the local culture. 

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.