Taracacum Officionale – Dandelion Lawnscape

Taraxacum Officionale Dandilion Lawnscape Bonfire charcoal on Strathmore 400 Paper, 4 x 9.45’ The dandelion, a healthful and prolific plant is the subject of this charcoal drawing. Lawn keepers everywhere ineffectually wage war on a plant with numerous benefits for the liver,…

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Commissions

Let’s work together I’m a jack of many hats If you have an idea for a collaboration or a gig for me please get in touch.    

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MOTHRA

In the summer of 2023 I joined an artist-parent collective and did a residency on Toronto Island at Gibraltar point. It was MAGICAL. The kids and I collected invasive species around the lighthouse near where we were staying, and on the beach….

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Take a class with me

I’ve been working at Create Art Studio for many years. Please join me for a learn to draw, botanical watercolour, or a meditative drawing and movement class!Some are held in the studio and others online so you can connect with me from…

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Garden Letters

Merging my gardening, with drawing, and communication with friends. Drawing may be one of the earliest forms of communication. We can draw a parallel between seed dispersal and language. Between roots and language. Between the movement of people and the variety of…

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Sketching Tour

ARTivating the Ravine was an event sponsored by a TD bank “park people” grant. A couple of neighbours and I submitted an application that would bring neighbours into the nearby ravine to learn something new and enjoy the fresh air. We couldn’t…

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Nautical chart work

I have been invited to show during a sailing regatta at a Yacht club on Lake Ontario. I will include my work on nautical charts. I have made new work for this event that I would like to share.

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Food currency

This series of charcoal drawings share utter abandon for a sense of scale. Subjects range from global currency, contemporary food systems, and industrial agriculture, to simply the patterns found at the cellular level, or the bark of a tree. This recent body of work…

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Nautical Charts

In the mid to late 1980s I saw the shoreline that I grew up on change drastically with the invasive species we call zebra mussels. These razor sharp but very small critters established themselves on every poissible surface. We had to suddenly…

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Charcoal as my material of choice

I am interested in the transformation of materials from their organic state to a mass produced and then consumed product. Charcoal is a common artists’ tool manufactured into various forms, but in its simplest form it is the residue of impure carbon easily…

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Kudzu Cookbook

Kudzu, has been a popular food in Japan and China for thousands of years. The three parts of the kudzu plant that are edible are the: Young leaves and vine tips, Flower blossoms, and Roots. However, it’s the tuberous roots that offer this…

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Kudzu – Installation

In the studio the 5 x 30 foot roll was installed on 2 dowels so that I may work on it 6 feet at a time. Everything was covered in a fine layer of black dust! My reference material stapled to the…

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