ARTIST STATEMENT
My work is an embrace—a fleeting, tactile moment of contact between material and surface. Plate to print, mold to cast, each gesture captures incised textures from natural and built environments, recording unique impressions of impermanent places.
As the daughter of mountaineers, I spent my childhood tracing the alpine contours of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains with my feet—traversing summits, glaciers, and moraines. This early, physical intimacy with landscape informs my approach to art-making: direct, tactile, and exploratory. I view the world as a monumental printmaking plate—a matrix of scribed surfaces waiting to be recorded, reimagined, and recontextualized.
My past works have engaged diverse sites: historic building facades (Shroud: The Macara-Barnstead Building), high-Arctic icebergs (Swell), and the intimate negative space between clasped hands (The Space Between Held Hands). Though varied, each site is marked by unique textures and histories—like fingerprints etched into the land and body.
Influenced by Conceptual and Land Art movements of the 1960s and ’70s, my practice is project-specific, with form evolving in response to the conceptual and material needs of each work. Meaning emerges through the interplay of process and material—where the ritual of printmaking meets the site-specific potential of sculpture.
Often, my backpack becomes a mobile studio—filled with brayers, ink, paper, alginate, or latex—tools for on-site creations. This peripatetic practice bridges my childhood wilderness adventures with a love of working in situ. In the studio, I follow what Twyla Tharp calls “scratching”—an active, intuitive search for ideas. My space is filled with samples, fragments, and playful deviations—seedlings for future works, sometimes years in the making.
I see art as a conduit for connection, compassion, and empathy—between people, places, and experiences. I am continually humbled by its ability to transcend language, offering a shared, universal form of expression. My work feels most complete when it evokes moments of shared wonder and self-discovery in the viewer.