I come from Alberta. There, the sky is vast, wind probes continuously, and black earth underlies everything. I am a sculptor, and it is with my hands that I reflect this prairie world, its eternal motion, and its men and women. My hands and my mind are never still, and my mission is to throw a singular vision back into the world, and to slow it down just long enough for others to see and feel it--to gasp just for a moment.

 

In 2020 I launched my fourth career, after retiring from teaching. I enrolled in the University of Alberta Fine Arts Department to work on a long-held dream of becoming a sculptor. Four years later, I'm just beginning to learn  to trust myself as an artist. I have had wonderful support from some very fine sculptors--namely Royden Mills, Michael Cor,  Peter Hide and Selene Huff. 

 

I have been working with steel for the last few years but I've realized that other materials can satisfy my need to create and play. And so I've played. I have just this year, used cement and plaster to make some very large sculptures.  But questions remain.  How do I evolve from distracted forms and learn to contain --is it possible to create something that flows precisely. yet still lives as a mass? For me, still, that is difficult--I tend to want to fly spontaneously and follow lines as they emerge, rather than to form my ideas beforehand.

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I have found out that cement can be sexy and I hope to do more steel and cement combinations.  I think I have also found out that sculpture that is sexual and threatening can also be funny? Funny is important. 

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I'm learning to create sculptures for public consumption making sure that my welds will keep the public safe. I have exhibited in three shows this last two years and painted my first mural in Edmonton. It is interesting to learn about my vision through other art forms. Even in my two-dimensional work I want to create a three-dimensional world, and a world of motion. My bodies are blocks--hills and valleys that leap, and push, and play. It is this three-dimensional vision in motion that fascinates me and that wants to come alive.

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Selected pieces are for sale.  Please enquire.  Commissions accepted.

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I am very grateful for all the help of the people and artists surrounding me for their advice and love.