Crystal Series:
“Authenticity and spirituality are the core focus of my artistic practice and expression. I am consistently immersing positive and meditative energies in to my work during the process of creation. I believe my practice offers self-meditation and flow through the creative forces from my higher self/soul. I am extremely fascinated by the formation of geological rock and crystal matter. I believe this matter is extremely sacred and is given to us over millions of years of sedimentation and fossilization from mother earth. My paintings replicate the crystal and fossilization process by creating many layers, textures, and even the crushing of mineral material and imbedding it within the surface. Crystals and minerals also carry around cleansing, healing and recharging energies. It is fascinating to understand how the process of creation occurs and to recognize the purity and knowledge that these ancient crystal structures embody. I hold these crystal remnants very dear to my soul.
Color can express and highlight many different feelings and emotions. I strongly believe in using many different colors and tones that might not necessarily go together, but once finished each color communicates and forms a particular language between the others. My paintings are a direct source of vibrancy, light, and a unique communication between the surface of the canvas and myself. Through the use of color, texture, form and mineral material this series offers an appreciation of the blessed space that we are living on- EARTH.”
Color can express and highlight many different feelings and emotions. I strongly believe in using many different colors and tones that might not necessarily go together, but once finished each color communicates and forms a particular language between the others. My paintings are a direct source of vibrancy, light, and a unique communication between the surface of the canvas and myself. Through the use of color, texture, form and mineral material this series offers an appreciation of the blessed space that we are living on- EARTH.”
Mineral Series:
This year I have been influenced and inspired by the history, structure and color palette of rock and mineral matter. Ever since I was a young girl I have always been intrigued and compelled to explore and collect my own rocks from the beach by my childhood home in Saskatchewan. This summer I began reflecting upon this fascination with rocks and realized how many other children have this curious nature to explore rocks as well. As I reflected longer I realized that children might be drawn to these pieces of the earth because these pieces reveal to us the structure, the depth, and the “energy” of the earth. These particular pieces embody a mystical energy that excites me. This “energy” exists in all aspects of life. I believe that different forms of matter give off different feelings or energies when encountered. I find that these mineral sediments document a prolonged energy and story because they have been apart of the earths crust for billions of years.
I chose to do a series of paintings that represent the energetic pieces of the earth’s fossils, sediments, and geometric contours. I have incorporated found minerals into the paintings by crushing and embedding them into the paint and canvas. My painting process mirrors the process that the elements of the earth undergo over the course of time. This process requires numerous layers of paint films and paint skins as well as organic materials that are inserted and embedded into the canvas; much like how soil, water, organic materials compress and fossilize over time. I wanted to create a “fossilistic” experience on the canvas in which passages of paint are trapped and embedded within water, mediums and the canvas. I feel that this work successfully represents the energy of these sacred minerals that have been created and aged over the immense course of the earth’s existence.