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 my prairie world, its eternal motion, and its men and women. My hands want to be never still and my desire 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 at this world 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. 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 worked with steel at the university and hope to again soon but my front yard is full of sculpture.   There is no more room!  I have found out that cement can be sexy and I hope to do more steel and cement combinations.   I've realized that other materials can satisfy my need to create and play. And so I've played. I have used cement and plaster, I have stretched canvas and used paint and after years of making posters and cards, I have learned more about print making. 

 

Questions dog me-- What is the point of art if it doesn't make change?  And thus my interest and uncertainty around protest.  I live  in a crazy world where I am so lucky to be able to do this.  My art practice is incredibly selfish and priviledged.  How do I justify my indulgence?  As an artist, I have other questions.  How do I learn to create from plans?  I tend  to fly spontaneously and follow lines as they emerge, rather than to form my ideas beforehand.  How do I combine my love of sculpture with painting?  With print making?  I want to, even in my two-dimensional work 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.

 

I painted my first mural in Edmonton trying to create a community of artists working together.  My first protest billboard working with Michael Cor also tried to create community.  We hope to take these billboards and allow others to join us in protest. 

 

​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.