I have had a love and passion to create from early childhood, beginning to paint at the age of eleven. As a young girl, my mother nurtured my artist abilities and my father fostered my business skills.

Today, when I realize my thoughts and feelings into creative form, it fulfills and brings me great joy. When I paint, it is a way that I translate my inner world to outer reality – I create from the inside out.

My interpretation of landscape is reproduced into its simplest form. Minimal detail is added so that the image is poised between unrecognizable and that of recollection; a place of peace and joy resonating from the soul, to that of complexity and intricacy of the mind. My work is balanced, strong and rich with colour.

I am inspired by Canada's Lauren Harris, A.J. Casson, Ted Harrison and most prominently Emily Carr. Emily and I both share a love of trees and a passion to paint them.

I have experienced many different mediums in my artistic path: Watercolour, acrylic, clay sculpture, pen and ink... Although I have worked with pastel intermittently throughout my life, it was in 2003, together with the birth of my abstract landscape style, that I grew akin to working with pastels – I continue to develop and grow with this intriguing medium.

I work with a high quality soft pastel. Colour sticks are applied directly to the canvas and blended and manipulated with my hands. Each piece is finished with a charcoal pencil outline.