Visual Arts
EXHIBITIONS RESUME

As a process artist, paintings and photography are the expression of my interconnection with the whole. They are personal expressions of my heart and soul from which I learn on a conscious level.

From an analytical perspective my process and use of visual poetics engages viewer awareness of their in-and-out shifting perceptions and individual interpretation of meaning.

In the abstract and tree motif paintings, subsurface spaces of tactile experience are created using the activity of the paint medium, insertion of images and cursive mark makings.

Photography for me is in the editing of captured light, whether in the traditional dark-room or contemporary digital environment. Again, the visual strategies include spatial juxtaposition of tonal values, colour, line and shape, and transparency. In the Arctic Crisis series the January twilight colours and layering of transparencies create an aesthetic similar to my  water colour paintings. The in-and-out action of viewer eye movement between the transparent layers offers the “decisive moment” for individual interpretation and consciousness of interconnection of the whole.

Within my overall contemporary visual and media practice, my paintings and photo-based research is located in a contemporary discussion on how we see. I’m concerned with kinesthetic perception, consciousness of interconnection with the whole and implications for contemporary human identity.