December 2024: Holiday Gift Show

My playfully abstracted work explores the intersection of culture, history, timelessness and the challenge of perspective. Technically, multiple materials, especially paint, wax pastel and ink are applied onto panel with various tools, then scratched and scraped off again to provide depth and texture. Deliberately multifaceted and contradictory elements encourage the viewer to experience the work with their own stories and interpretations.
I am a New Zealand born self-taught artist, living in Portland Oregon. Essentially, my aim is to create something that makes people smile, hesitate, look again, and wonder.