acrylic on canvas

36” x 36”

2024

@$1950

Salve and Provenance began my painting year off in 2025. They were part of a commission project at the request of a new client.

Provenence marked a new beginning for my client as well as a new beginning for me in a new year on the paintwall at the studio.

Salve got her name because the process of painting and getting back to work after the holidays was a personal salve.

In the depths of winter when we can only imagine the exuberance of the growing season, painting offers a nice counterpoint to the variations on winter’s white theme that appears in our outdoor view.

Acrylic on Canvas

36” x 36”

2024

@$1950

Lake Winnipeg is an expansive inland ocean edged by a plethora of micro and macro ecosystems. Each one contributes in its own way to the health and diversity of the lakeside landscape that inspires my summer experience.

Between the waters exhibits just a snipit of the growing and vital flora I love so much

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas

24” x 30”

@$1050 each

Diptych @$1850

The Garden Glow series gets it’s glowing name from a hasty shopping trip to the art supply store where I inadvertently came home with a pack of flourescent colours by mistake. My work is said to be colourfyul but these new additions really upped the colour value.

Available for in person viewing at Pulse Gallery, Winnipeg.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas

24” x 30”

2024

@$1050 each

Diptych @$1850

The Glow of the garden Girls is enhanced by the addition of some flourescent colours into the mix as well as the use of contrasts. Colours oppoite on the colour wheel tend to duel, adding some action to surfaces.

This dueling nature inherent with compliments is one of the devices I use that gives my work its signature vibrancy and adds visual movement to a static 2D surface.

Available for in person viewing at Pulse Gallery, Winnipeg.

Thie Garden Glow group began in the summer of 2024 in our lakeside bunkhouse that I generously call my summer studio. The walls are unpainted and colour tends toreads a little differently when reflected off a wooden surface.

The acid greens and flourescent hints are a loose representation of the memory of lake side garden I came across on a morning bikeride.

3 panels @ 16” x 36”

Acrylic on Canvas, 2025

This trio was painted as a triptych but each individual panel also stands alone. The garden has again been in bloom on the oaint wall at the studio.

This is the ultiomate in low maintenance gardening. Perfect for sunny or shady locations. required no weeding watering or pruning yet blooms year round whatever the weather.

Acrylic on Panel, 48” x 48”, 2023.

Framed, 50” x 50”, $3675. ($3400 unframed)

This piece was painted as a site specific instalation for The Pulse Gallery and Fairmont Winnipeg’s inaugural artists in Residence collaboration.

Un settlers refers to the prairie in full bloom, in constant motion at the mercy of the elements. She is currently on loan to a downtown law firm though invites visitors by appointment.

Acrylic on Panel,

48” x 48”, 2023., Unframed

$3400

Poppies are a constant in my studio practice. I painted a floral version of 3x 48” x 48” panels specifically for the Fairmont Winnipeg and Pulse Gallery Winnipeg’s inaugural Artist in residence initiative.

Poppies: Game was the third of 3 floral themed panels. Her partners were more cousins than sisters that formed a natural diptych. They soon made off to their forever home before even being invited to the Fairmont hotel.

Poppies Game has definitely “Got game”. She can be viewed in downtown Winnipeg by appointment.

Acrylic on Panel, 48” x 48”, 2023.

Framed 50” x 50”, $3675 ($3400 unframed)

Luminosity celebrates the vibrant Prairie skies that dominate the landscape in Canada’s keystone province, Manitoba, where I live. I’m particularly inspired by fall skies where the full bloom of the Prairie is harvested and the dust in the air at twilight often turns the fading sky scarlet.

She has taken up temporary residence at my husband’s office where she enjoys Zoom calls and eavesdropping on legal conversations. She is a bright light that luckily cannot talk.

Viewings available by appointment.

The pinks in this luminous girl were made from some of the last of my now discontinued favourite Golden colour.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas, 11” x 14”, 2025.

The Sweet Treats bloom perennially in my Winnipeg Studio. They are often an introduction to my work for those who are inspired by a garden theme. They are small enough to brighten any interior, yet pack a visual punch that outweighs their fighting class.

I buy canvases 5 at a time to access the discount my art supply store offers so I am always adding 11 × 14’s to the back of my car. Some of them don’t make it to this page so if a Sweet Treat is appealing make sure to add yourself to my newsletter for reliable messaging. As a solo practitioner I’m too busy painting to ever find my way into anyones inbox more than twice monthly.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas, 2025.

Each panel 24” x 36”. Combined total is 36” High x 72” Wide

@ $1300 per panel, $3300 when purchased as a triptych.

This trio was a beacon of hope on the paintwall in the early spring of 2025 when winter was reluctant to leave us. Completed just in time for The Winnipeg Home and Garden Show these girls inspired some visitors to begin their renovations around their art collection and reminded others that the ultimate in low maintenance gardening does not begin in a greenhouse.

These babies bloom year round whatever the weather, and require no maintenance, watering or weeding.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas. 24” x 36”

Panel 1/3 left side of Triptych, 2025.

@$1300 each panel, $3300 when purchased as a triptych.

i like to have multiple panels on the go on the paint wall. Often that means a com position willl bloom across all three surfaces. Each panel is then treated independently so that it is compositionally sound as an individual while also relating to its adjacent partner or partners and resolving as a complete triptych.

This sisterhood grouping evolved out of the mark making process. There was no plan when i began other than to be present with materials in a creative act. For me that is with acrylic paint in my tiny sunlit studio. The result is a record of moments, of one set of marks leading to another as each days work contributed to the final compositions.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas 24” x 36”, 2025

The Bebe is the right hand panel of The Sisterhood Trio. These girls are fresh from the paint wall. (in the spring of 2025)

In the middle of Canada where I paint from a tiny studio within view of the Red River, the landscape is often slow to get it’s spring mojo going.

The Prairies are robust bloomers at the peak of the summer season and thats where the marks led me as this composition evolved. There is a reason why the rich black soil forms the foundation of Canada’s grain production. In the early part of my favourite season winter can drag on ( and on) and my paint wall is often the salve I need to combat the residue of a winter that is reluctant to leave us.

The Bebe, is so named because she is the right side panel of the trio. Please note she is neither last to the party or the favourite. I don’t want these sisters arguing over which of them is most important, more valued or desired.

Should you decide only one of the girls is joining your household we won’t tell her siblings.

Acrylic on Panel 11” x 14”, 2025 @ $350

As a Triptych Height 14” x Width 33” @ $875

Sweet Treat : Spritz is about contrasts and compliment, about being present with materials making creative choices.

Any creative moment spent in a solo persuit or within a group setting is always a salve. The result is a composition that might be small but packs a visual punch that far outweighs her weight class.

Find her at Pulse Gallery in The Forks Complex, Winnipeg.

Part of a body of small works designed to compliment the Fairmont Suite Group of paintings.

This little gem is a personal favourite. Compact with a gentle colour pallete she invokes a summers day in soft focus while packing a solid compositional punch.

20” x 20” on Gallery Canvas, 2023

$675

Passage was created in response to a request for a 24” x 24” piece to partner in a group show. These blooms evolved on the paintwall in the depths of a Canadian winter set on the prairies. This garden can bllom year round no matter the weather.

acrylic on panel

24” x 24”, 2024

$900

Acrylic on Panel, 18” x 24” each.

Together this pair measures 36” x 24”

$1300

Acrylic on Panel, 2023.

Acrylic on panel, 18” x 24”, 2024.

This active semi abstract landscape was one of the first paintings I reintroduced black to after many years of creatind darks by adding compliments together.

The remnants of Golden’s Quinocridone red light, my favouite colour for under layers was used in this piece and her companion, “Sway”. There was a distinct rhythm to their creation. Constant motion in reaction to layers as they built up on the surfaces rocked between overpainting and finding balance.

Painting is always a unchoreographed dance but I was happy to see this pair arrive on my card.

Acrylic on panel, 18” x 24” each panel @ $750

as a Triptych, Height 24” x Width 36” @ $1300

The Prairies where I live are a constant source of inspiration. I am always surprised by the resilience of the perennial inhabitants that strive and thrive each growing season despite the hardships a Canadian winter can inflict.

The wind is a constant on the prairies too that tends to choreograph rhythmic dances admid crowds of blooms. While I never aim to describe literal landscapes with my work I am inspired to translate the energy of the environment, to describe shapes and create characters from marks on a surface that lead my compositions through a creative game of decision making to their resolutions.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas 11” x 14”, each panel, 2025.

Combined Height, 14” x 33”

@ $350 per panel, $875

Sweet Treats have been blooming perennially at my studio. At only 11” x 14” these little compositions pack a much larger visual punch than their statue might suggest. They have livened many indoor spaces, tight corners and forgotten hallways and I’m told bring joy to those who have chosen to live among earlier iterations of the “Sweet Treat” Series.

Visitors to Pulse Gallery at The Forks in Winnipeg have become particularly fond of their sunny pragmatic outlook with the added benefit they can fit in even the savviest hand luggage.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas 11” x 14” each, 2025. @ $350 each

As a Triptych: Height 14” x Width 33” @ $875

This little composition can stand alone independently while also contributing to the Sweet Treat Trio. A trip to the art supply store unearthed a sale on some acrylic paint that I quickly added to my cart. At the studio I later realised I had mistakenly bought flourescent colours that I am now adding to my compositions in small doses. It’s amazing how far a hint of highligter can go on a small surface.

These sweet treats are even tastier as a result of my choice that is already revealing a silver lining.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas 11” x 14”, 2025 @ $350

As a Triptych height 14” x Width 33” @ $875

This little trio was an exercise in restraint. I can be the queen of overpainting. I begin with loose light marks without a plan and allow those marks to suggest a composition. The garden landscape is a frequent visitor to my paint wall.

The soft choral of initial layers is left to bloom on the surface of the final piece.

Acrylic on Gallery Canvas 11” x 14” @ $350

As a triptych Height 14” x 33” @ $875

Spritz is the third sibling in this trio but that doesnt make her any less important than her sisters. She is a combination of spring greens balanced out with the spring punch of warm pastels.

Acrylic on Canvas

22” x 30”

$990

The original incidental greenspace inspired a pair of cousins that were painted not long after I first began experimenting with roadside “ weeds” and using black gesso in the under layers.

Often works hung on the paintwall together become a diptych or triptych. This time i wanted to play with darks and the textural detail of a wildly overgrown natural space.

While the paintings developed on the paint wall together, they remain singletons. Cousins instead of sibling

Acrylic on Panel

14” x 18” each, 2025 ( SOLD)

This new pair bloomed in time for my most recent public gathering. Painting them was a reminder that a new season will eventually bloom. If your climate is like mine you might like, or need, some indor colour to counterract a spring season that is slow to start.

This pair found their way to separate homes before they were even loaded onto the website.

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Acrylic on Panel

11” x 14”, 2023

$325

I have always been drawn to colour and colour relationships. In much of my work I try to tease out a little reaction between contrasts. In this little piece i was attracted to the water and how the addition of a yellow to the the light blue violet of the water flattened out the surface to infer a breathless late summer afternoon.

18” x 36”

Acxrylic on Canvas

2024

@$1050

The floral theme continues to bloom. This painting is part of a group of low maintenance gardens I promote. They require no watering, trimming or repotting.

Available at the studio by appointment.

Acrylic on canvas

18” x 36”, 2024 @ $1050

Some describe colour as singing and I agree. When gathered in a group the elements can’t help but to form a choir, even without a conductor.

Available at the studio for in person visits and home trials.

18” x 36”

Acrylic on Canvas

2024

@$1050

When is a painting finished and how do you give a painting a name?

These are two of the most frequently asked questions. The answer varies and may even change over time. I’ve been known to label and sign a painting I consider to be complete and several months or even years later feel the need to re address her.

No hard and fast rules. The Blue Guy is available for in person viewing by appointment.