Artist Statement

I am a contemporary Canadian artist and photographer who sees an ecological world in deep transformation and reveals the not always obvious ways our eco-systems are impacted by manifestations of climate crisis. I document, with cameras and printmaking, the potency, fragility, and beauty of our environment, attempting to hold still the oft-subtle organic impacts of air laden with/without water or smoke atop the complexity of land. The Salish Sea series, from the west coast of Canada, illustrates the drama of the sea and clouds signalling shifts in weather patterns, warming of the sea, and changes in biodiversity. Nose Hill works pay homage to the ancient grasses and aspen copses of the Rocky Mountain foothills and prairies, where drought, weather, and human use are changing the land and its native plant and animal biodiversity, alongside eroding vital indigenous history. Jura Creek reveals a glacial formed limestone canyon with deep time markings in the Rocky Mountains of Canada where increasingly diminishing snow and rainfall finds vital waterways drying up, as witnessed by this hot, dry creek bed. The northern Alberta Boreal Forest studies look to the waters, skies and banks of the Saskatchewan River system. A work in progress, moving through the landscape with wonder and a more rough-hewn practise of constructing the photograph with chine collé printmaking. Working to honour the tough, proud northern scapes with a gentle hand.