I love textiles. The feeling of the cloth in my hands, the textures, the colours, combining to calm my senses and soothe my soul. Each painting composed of hundreds of pieces of cloth, each piece a brushstroke of colour, the strokes combining to tell a story, evoke a feeling, trigger a memory.
The wild and stunning beaches of the west coast of British Columbia are the most special part of Canada to me. On the way to Tofino, from the first sight of Long Beach to walking for hours along the edge of the sea, every moment is pure treasure. The raw splendor of these beaches is spectacularly beautiful, whether it’s a stormy, grey day, a brilliant blue sunshine day or somewhere in between.
As a teen growing up on Vancouver Island, I was extremely fortunate to spend my summers with my parents on their sailboat (admittedly I only realized how lucky I was in my later years!). We would travel to remote areas of the west coast of Vancouver Island, and north towards Haida Gwaii to avoid the busier coves and bays closer to civilization.
Etched in my mind even 40 years later are the experiences of arriving in the anchorages of the various First Nations villages all along the B.C. coastline. These abandoned sites would be overgrown, but the totems, no matter what state of decay, nor how simple or complicated the carvings, would exude a powerfully haunting, yet stately presence. In most cases, there was no trace of paint, the silvery grey of the weathered cedar the only discernible colour, other than moss and lichen accumulating on the totems. The figures painstakingly carved into the totems were beautiful, ravens, eagles, salmon, bear, orca…..
21"x21"x2” - cotton, dye, thread watercolour pencil, mounted on custom aluminum
$1770
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22"x27" - cotton, dye, thread
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10"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$800
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10"x19"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$800
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10"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$800
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24"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1920
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20"x16"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1280
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11"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1000
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16"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1280
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20"x23"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1840
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12"x12"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$680
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21"x24"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted oncustom aluminum
$2020
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24"x26"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$2500
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Balance...mine was profoundly damaged more than a decade ago. Ever since, my every day is orchestrated to stay on one side of the fine line where I become overwhelmed and unable to cope with the chaos in my brain.
18"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1440
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16"x17"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1030
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14"x16"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$900
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23"x23"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$2120
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24"x22"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$2110
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19"x9"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$690
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19"x30" Cotton, dye, thread
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30"x24"x2” (diptych) - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$2880
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37"x11"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1630
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21"x20"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1680
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21"x23"x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$1930
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This body of work developed organically from my Coastlines series when I began allowing the cloth to guide how the painting developed. I noticed that in these pieces, the suggestion of a passageway appeared, reminding me of travelling by boat thru the coastal inlets and passes of the west coast of Canada.
These paintings speak to me as portals, a transition point from one place to another, inviting us to step in to a new dimension, to be open to seeing and experiencing new adventures.
16”x15”x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
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14”x8”x2” - cotton, dye, thread, mounted on custom aluminum
$450
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