Take a moment and breathe
landscape paintings add colour, personality and individuality to your home.
Welcome
I am a Toronto based landscape painter. I paint nature wherever I find it en-plein-air during the summer months.
Freesia and Tulips, oil on cradled panel, 10”x8”
Tokens of love
Ruth Upjohn Gallery, Women’s Art Association of Canada,
23 Prince Arthur Ave. Toronto
October 8-18
Tuesday to Saturday 11am - 5pm
For centuries, women were permitted to paint flowers, but not politics, beauty, but not meaning. Floral painting was considered decorative and domestic, never serious or powerful. In Tokens of Love, I reclaim the flower as both subject and symbol. Each piece is based on real flowers given to me by loved ones, small, intimate gestures that carry the weight of care, memory and connection.
These are not anonymous still lifes, but portraits of relationships. By returning to this historically “feminine” subject with emotional depth and intention, I challenge the idea that flowers are trivial. These blooms are unapologetically personal. They speak to the quiet radicalism of care and insist that intimacy is a form of strength.
the next 50 years show
As a landscape painter I am very invested in our gorgeous country. That is why the thought that “The next 50 years will determine the fate of all life on this planet” as attested by Sir David Attenborough is very frightening to me, especially since the quote comes from 1984. I spend my summers next to streams and lakes painting En Plein Air and the winters in my studio converting those studies to full scale paintings. I am fascinated with dynamic skies and beautiful water reflections. As Canadians, our identity is tied deeply to the land. These paintings are a celebration of colour and place, but also a quiet alarm. The land - like the animals who live within it- has never been able to shield itself from us. Its still generous, still breathtaking, and still at risk.