I am a corporate interior designer by day and an abstract artist during evenings and weekends, living and working in Burlington, Ontario. My love for interiors and architecture inspires my work as I aim to create beauty from my surroundings.
I create paintings that are inspired by the energy and life of towns and cities shown through sharp lines, carefully crafted colour palettes and gestural abstract expressionist marks.
I graduated with my degree from the Interior Design Program at Humber College in 2009. After working for a few years at a large firm, I decided to return to school to study fine art. In 2015, I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in Toronto. I now work at a wonderful design firm by day and pursue my art practice by night. I love both design and art equally as they each inform each other and allow me to constantly make new connections and be inspired by new ideas.
Statement
Space and the way we move around it, interact with it, and live in it permeates every part of our lives. As the art historical views of landscape die off, a new definition has emerged. These are the everyday, common spaces we live and move through daily. Cities, streets, country roads, and buildings, shape so much of how we experience life. Landscape is no longer defined as the sublime and untouched, rather landscape is everything that is occupied and shaped by humans.
My work explores the experience of this human-shaped landscape including visions of urban life, and architecture. Traveling through and visually consuming the passing landscape helps me pause, reflect and process the external world. My paintings are an attempt to translate these thoughts visually. I use photos taken during my daily travels through the city as a starting point and then use my personal observations and memories to fill in the gaps and create an abstract version of the space. These images are not a single moment, but many at once; fleeting and familiar but not recognizable. Engaging colour combinations metaphorically point to the vibrancy of urban life and my thoughts and feelings during these realizations. My goal is to visually externalize the internal experiences we have moving from point A to point B.
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