There was no other way but to return to the act of making.

I began drawing and painting as soon as I could hold a brush or pencil. By the age of ten, I was taking on commissions before fully understanding what it meant to be an artist. Over time, my path led me into architecture and design, where I worked with structure, space, and form. In the last decade, however, I gradually moved away from the tactile act of making. Eventually, I reached a point where something essential was missing, and I knew I had to return to my art and my creativity.

My practice is now rooted in that return, to working with my hands, to intuition, and to a slower, more deliberate process. I am drawn to subtlety, tonal shifts, textures, and the interplay of light and shadow. My background in architecture and interior design continues to shape how I think about balance, composition, and how a piece lives within a space.

My current work explores abstract painting and paper as both material and structure. In my paper series, I use reclaimed paint swatches, cutting and folding each piece by hand, then arranging them through a process that is both intuitive and precise. Repetition becomes rhythm, structure softens into something organic.

I create work that engages with and transforms the spaces it inhabits, inviting stillness, closer observation, and a heightened awareness of material and form.

Contemporary Canadian Artist BC Okanagan Vernon