I love listening to the revelation of the earth visually—turning a rock into colour, or finding pigment in a plant. This vocation drives my work, whether it be in a gallery show, community project, or painting.
The environment is central in my work—especially dear to me is the fantastic outdoors of Canada—and I aim to encourage people in a sense of wonder toward it. Whether it is a child making crayons from a found-stone and beeswax, or professional artists making paint, or a congregation celebrating the liturgy of the church, my aim is to help the local landscape inform their endeavours.
As an iconographer, my work matures into something even more catholic—part of a doorway to the spiritual realities of our world. Grounded in the local-colours created from a community, my icons celebrate the voice of our spirit-bearing earth by translating a place into an icon. Through meditation and prayer, they are offered as something by which to experience the energies of the Eternal.