Artist’s Statement

After a career spanning the public, private, and social sectors in North America and the Caribbean, I decided to bring my passion for painting to the forefront. My lifelong commitment to enabling people and institutions to be better and do better now continues through my full-time artistic practice, where close attention to people, places, and the natural world offers another way to see, understand, and contribute.

My large pastel paintings bring realism and impressionism into contemplation and conversation. My art is intended to evoke joy and wonder, inviting viewers to contemplate nature more deeply and to imagine a world that is more generous, just, and abundant for present and future generations.

Working exclusively in dry pastel is a deliberate choice. The medium’s pure pigment offers vibrant colour and allows me to create striking contrast and subtle tonal shifts, which I have found especially satisfying after experimenting with other media. 

Each painting I create carries a story. I want my work to resonate with viewers by awakening memories, stirring imagination, or prompting reflection on their relationship with nature, people, and places. This desire to pair image with meaning led me to publish Pastels & Prose, a coffee table book that brings together my paintings and the stories that inspired me to create them.

My art is an invitation to pause, to notice beauty more deeply, and to carry that renewed attention into how we can joyfully and lovingly care for the natural world.

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