selected art work
Making Sense of Chaos
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Standing Guard
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Selected Diet
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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This Too Shall Pass
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Through with Play
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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All Wrapped Up
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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North South Divide
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Long Journey
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Safe Shelter
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Juggling Act
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Decay
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Child's Play
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
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Energy Source
15 x 20, paper collage on hot press board
On the heels of Dada, Surrealists adopted and adapted collaging and cut-and-paste technique. Much like their “automatic” approach to painting, these artists relied on the subconscious to produce one-of-a-kind assemblages made of photographs, illustrations, coloured paper, and paint. Working in a similar method I started with a series of photographs and thousands of magazine pieces, loosely combining images in an effort to organize the randomness into some kind of order. The results are a series of collages combining photographs and magazine clipping assembled together to create new meaning.
Dream Like Memories
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A Moment of Piece
8 x 8", oil on board
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Life is Ahead
8 x 8", oil on board
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Anne's Dog on Blue
8 x 8", oil on board
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Bill Overlooking the Ohio
8 x 8", oil on board
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They Were Happy
8 x 8", oil on board
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Happy Moments
8 x 8", oil on board
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Working Like a Mad Man #1
8 x 8", oil on board
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Working Like a Mad Man #2
8 x 8", oil on board
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Working Like a Mad Man #3
8 x 8", oil on board
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Working Like a Mad Man #4
8 x 8", oil on board
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Working Like a Mad Man #5
8 x 8", oil on board
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Virginia
8 x 8", oil on board
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Sharing
8 x 8", oil on board
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One Perspective
16 x 16", oil on board
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My World at Six #3
10 x 10", oil on canvas
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My World at Six #2
10 x 10", oil on canvas
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My World at Six #1
10 x 10", oil on canvas
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Moved to the Back
14 x 14", oil on board
For the past four years my work has explored personal memory, home, and family history. Photographs and maps are hand cut into intricate stencils, some images requiring three or four separate overlays. These varied images are layered in single compositions to create an often dream like space of hazy memories, experiences, and places. The tension between reason and intuition, detail and spontaneity, control and abandon is evident in the process of detailed cut stencils and the unpredictability of the paint. This also manifests in the thematic investigation into identity, memory, generations, and the social structures that define us.
Needs Change
We all take photos to document our travels in an effort to capture a piece of what it felt like to be in that spot, at that time. We post and store our photos then never look at them again. When I returned home from extended road trips I wanted to re-experience the journeys. I did this by exploring the photographs in different ways keeping in mind the words “needs change”. I culled them into a manageable amount of images, editing them for content and aesthetics, moving to printing them out and enhancing them with paint and pen. One hundred 4x6” thumbnails were edited to 40 paintings on paper, 9 x 13.5”, acrylic, photo transfer, oil on terra skin.
links and more information
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Secord Gallery is one of the longest established galleries and custom framing shops in Atlantic Canada, with roots dating back to 1979 at the same location.
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Located in the charming town of Wolfville in Nova Scotia's bountiful Annapolis Valley, Harvest Gallery features a wonderfully diverse collection of art and fine craft by Nova Scoita artists and artisans. Curator, Lynda Macdonald has been representing the best of the region since 2004.
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Gallery 78 is the oldest private art gallery in New Brunswick, serving corporate, private, and public art collections in Canada and around the world.
We celebrate over 45 years of proudly representing emerging and established artists from Atlantic Canada in our beautiful Queen Anne Revival home along the Wolastoq.
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Reviews of theatre and art in Nova Scotia and beyond.