QUIETLY

       This group of brushwork drawings were inspired by my love of the Daoist and Buddhist teachings AND my practice of mindfulness. 

An ink stroke is completely of the moment. There is no correcting. And on paper the ink expands as it will. The outcome is always unforeseeable.

(To see a portrait done in this manner go to early website entries and look for 'LADY OF THE FLOATING WORLD')

I am also exploring the unity in perceived division. Through the use of blocks of colour that could be seen as seperate; however are unified by the brushstroke. 

                     ALL paintings SOLD.  

Collection of roxanne and dean anderson.

              23"x30"    sumi ink on acrylic painted                              background on arches paper. 

 

INK PLAY

          Each of these and many more were sent as postcards during the Covid induced lockdown ... intriguing and delighting both recipients and the postal carriers who handled them. All arrived as pristine as when mailed. Thanku postal services  

REFLECTIONS

                          REFLECTIONS:
                       16X20   36X36   24X30
                    Acrylic on canvas or board

            

Inspired by the prairie skies. A purely abstract expression of blues and whites. 

 

JANUARY 2020

22x30  acrylic, sumi ink on arches paper

30 x30 acrylic

                                                                 COLLECTION OF Jo-Ann and Steve

what the silence brings

30x30"  acrylic on canvas

COLLECTION: Jessie and Tyler Gordon

30X30" acrylic on canvas 

COLLECTION: Dylan Elke

30x30 acrylic on canvas

FOR SALE: 300.00  

NIGHTSCAPES   23X30    acrylic and sumi ink on rag paper

 

The meditative process of rubbing a compressed cedar stick on a stone block in order to make sumi ink, precedes … followed by washing sumi ink and acrylic paint onto rag paper ... observing how they mesh to form these ethereal night skies …

                                                                                                                   

 

ALWAYS COMING HOME: 12 pieces

ALWAYS COMING HOME. Memories from a prairie childhood.

I recently returned to Saskatchewan after many years living away: across Canada and the USA, plus a few forays into other countries along the way. Ever since I re-settled I have been wondering: where is home? what is home? Does one ever find home? can one? or is this simply memory? These works on paper began to come to me in 2018, however reached their fullness in 2019.

They represent memories of life in a small farming town, through the eyes of a child, the journeys of her ancestors as they settled the land and then finally of our present day.

What is it about returning to the land of my birth? not the country but the land. These prairie horizons. sun. grasses. those winds. the prairie-raised people.

My husband says that I am different here - not the woman he has known for 35+years. What does this mean? am I?

I am not the person I was when I left those decades back. I am way more. Is it true you cannot go home again? or is it simply that you are not who you were when you left? so yes, then one cannot go home again! Is it possible also, that the one who left was left in the land and once returned that woman also returns? Who am I? and where is home then?

One answer is that home is within me. Is it? Or am I within it?

Anchored by birth. Formed by those people and experiences beyond this land. Boundaried by the self that grew up and out.

And so, we are 'Always Coming Home'.

Each piece contains a memory-story from my prairies.