Paintings on Canvas

Many of the paintings I've made over the last few years use a combination of poured paint and acrylic brushwork. I started exploring this technique during the early days of the pandemic and fell in love with the creative potential of the process. Paint poured on canvas has a life of its own; it is an equal collaborator with the artist in these pieces. During the pouring process, both the paint and the artist are in flow. I explore colours, pursue patterns, learn new subtleties of the way my partner moves, and grow in boldness and creativity in our dance together.

After the paint is dry I hang the poured canvas on my wall and it becomes a Rorschach window into worlds of imagination. As it suggests pictures to me, my joy is to go back and embellish details with a brush, to tease out dreamlike views from the abstract fields of colour. I don't like to paint on top of all of the pours or to paint too much over any of them because I want to share with you the fun of scrying into the paint and following your own perceptions.

I'm presently rediscovering my life after divorce, bereavement and complex trauma. I'm slowly, gently, learning to see myself as worthy of love and worthy of following my bliss. This is my bliss. I don't know how I would have been able to start painting again, without my playmate, the poured paint, to make the first move with me and throw a soft ball to my imagination.