2023 Riding Mountain Artist's Residency, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2023 Manitoba Craft Council Victoria Beach Retreat, Manitoba Craft Council, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2024 Upcoming solo exhibition at Mary E. Black Gallery, Centre for Crafts Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2024 Upcoming solo exhibition at Craft Ontario Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2025 Upcoming solo exhibition at MHC Gallery, Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, Manitoba
In my work I seek an imaginative revitalisation of the narrative and atmospheric potential of painting. I negotiate the ability of painting to create visual worlds that are both familiar and extraordinary, rooted in everyday corporeal and spatial experiences, yet taking off into the synthetic domain of image-signs. I begin by considering the composition and approach to colour, and I rework the paintings until they reveal unforeseen meanings that exist beyond any preconceived model. As the psychological component takes over, symbols and other elements are added to bring them forward so that the paintings would further open up in a multi-vocal way. The resulting conceptual conflict is perhaps what brings my work into focus, as the paintings become mysterious in a way that attenuates engagement. The layered meanings in my paintings emanate from a profound emotional connection to life experience that allows me to engage my interest in perception, memory and narrative with the ever-evolving, often conflicting nature of contemporary Canadian painting.