My Life with a Pen
I start each piece slowly, steadily, and with bad posture. One line and dot at a time, my passion drives my patience to get there. I am defined by everything I have touched, tasted, seen and dreamt, but I am made out of everything I have created.
In my mind, I sit in, under and above each piece as I work. I climb the branches to see what the view looks like from up high and follow the trunk into the ground. I pause in the space of impression to capture something in myself, and when each tree is complete a part of me is pressed into the inked energy of my expression.
* original fine art drawings on various mediums (e.g., paper, wood)
* archival materials
* mixed media artworks include ink, watercolours, acrylics on various surfaces (e.g., paper, canvas, wood)
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Sacred Worship Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: January is scaffolding made of bones, molding our beginnings as Nature grows its flesh onto our unique selves. I am standing tall, embracing the breeze.
Sacred Worship Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: A pear, lilac and maple tree enmesh into one. July is a woman: her arms outstretched, her feet firmly planted by the shore.
Carving an Artist Series Archival fine tip black ink on watercolour paper 15 x 22 Description: There isn't a tree I cannot see through as I weave in and out of the evergreens. They grow on the side of the hill in pockets of powder; snow shimmering with weightless branches. This is my road, my velvet path, smoothing my ride, going this way.
Carving an Artist Series Black ink on watercolour paper 15 x 22 Description: Licking the heels of accomplishment with unrefined intelligence, I crawled around this piece on my hands and knees. I found something interesting; something that mirrored an absurd peace, dangling from the nodules of nature’s skin. I am grateful for my lessons.
Fine tip black ink pen on watercolour paper 12 x 17 Description: The community we create is the embrace we share Our gifts compliment our unique fanfare, Shining together with love and embrace A movement we carve with light and grace; Meeting new friends, finding old souls Finding meaning and chance in similar roles; Such a striking resemblance all that is kind, Such a blessing to share all that we find.
Carving an Artist Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: This piece is my childhood. Spending every summer at the family cottage in Tobermory, my roots are among rocks and a limestone escarpment.
Sacred Worship Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: The violet tree is faithful, tied to a union of love, humility and sincerity. In this piece, my arm links with another, joining February and its brevity of touch.
Carving an Artist Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: I am living my dream, travelling the west. My views are these ubiquitous, stoic trees, traversing back through the wilds of unencumbered scale. My sublime vista is playful and poetic, and I bask in the girth of the redwood.
Carving an Artist Series Black ink on watercolour paper 17 x 24 Description: The air we breathe begins in life’s underground in the chest of the earth. Oxygen seeps from the pores of the skin of roots coiling above ground. The scentless breath fills the capillaries of tree branches reaching up to the light, sprouting tiny buds to produce a bouquet of life’s bounty.
Sacred Worship Series Archival fine tip black ink on cotton canal jute paper 15 x 22 Description: In its magic, we find poise. December is intuition and inner wisdom. Celebrating a willow tree, I am healing myself with gifts of family bliss. I am wrapped in the dangling leaves primed with insight.