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Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
News
Covid-19 has changed all our lives. I am thankful that I have remained well, but long to return to normal activities like visiting with friends and family, and travelling for art and pleasure.
While self-isolating in Port Hope I have been working in my studio daily. In 2020 I produced Other Echoes, a collection of works on paper examining home and memory.
Early in 2021 I completed the Canadian part of The Tangled Garden a large, long-term garden wall project. Hopefully in the future I will have the opportunity to travel and develop the imagined two remaining walls.
My annual summer canoe trip with the other artists of the Gibson Girls, was cancelled and our exhibition in Vilnius, Lithuania was postponed until 2022. The mail art exchange project we were to exhibit, Where I'm at Now: A Conversation in Art has continued and provided some solace and connection. Go to our newly launched website gibsongirlsart.com to see the growing collection of collaborative postcards created by the group. Follow our activities and the project on instagram @5gibsongirls.
What stories do we tell ourselves about our lives and our environment?
I collect, categorize and display representations of the natural world and the language used to describe them: botanical, familiar, alien, native, naturalized, domestic, wild, lost, found, paradise, field... I work primarily on paper and with collected objects and printed ephemera in related but distinct projects. In my life and work I am always trying to come to an understanding of my relationship to, and responsibility for this place we call home.
I grew up collecting in the woods and along the shores of Lake Ontario. After pursuing an undergraduate focus in print,
I worked at Toronto’s Open Studio for many years. As a master lithographer, I helped facilitate the prints of many prominent Canadian artists both in Toronto as well as Inuit artists in Kinngait (formerly known as Cape Dorset), Nunavut. My later MFA research brought my print expertise and thinking about collections together. I have received Ontario and Canada Council Grants to support my activities and participated in artist residencies in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland; The Botany Library of the British Museum; St. Michael’s Printshop, St. John’s, Newfoundland; and Engramme, Quebec, P.Q. I have exhibited both solo and group exhibitions of my prints and collection projects.
My work is included in public and private collections in Canada and abroad including Global Affairs Canada, The Canada Council Art Bank and The Toronto Stock Exchange. I divide my time between studios in Port Hope, Ontario and Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Mexican studio 2018