Paintings Archive

2005—2009

The most recent pieces here use the figure at life scale to explore questions of figure/ground relationship.  My statement relating to this work is on my blog.  My stints at El Bosque Nuevo butterfly farm in Costa Rica inspired an earlier group of pieces around transformation. 

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Silver Tabby Black Shoes Lucy White Nightshirt Zoe Floats Blue Chair Embrace Katie Lucy Silk Slip Cloud Forest Pine Molting Rose Roses and Ruin I & II Nest Babies Blessing Holding Light Peter Blue Butterflies Cabinet II Sidewalk Maple Keys I Hanging Keys

 

Before 2005

The first body of work in this period relates to my exhibit at the Surrey Art Gallery, “Crossing Boundary”, exploring the daily migration of Vancouver’s crow population to their communal roost.  Also here are works from my ongoing collaborative history with poet Rishma Dunlop as well as series called “Evening Fields”, inspired in part by an encounter with Barnett Newman’s painting, “The Voice” at MOMA, NY.

Crowdreams 1 Nest Little Nest Crowdreams 2 Siding Platform Cradle Hedgerow Vespers Copper Moon Evening Fields 1 Evening Fields 2 Evening Fields 5 Evening Fields 3 Evening Fields 4 Evening Fields 6 Holding Space Crossing 1 & Crossing 2 Breaking the Line Linda Sotto Voce 1 Sotto Voce 2 Sotto Voce 3 Sotto Voce 4 The Red Chair Rebecca Etc. The Stream Stretching Crumpled Wings