Patient Michael Ondaatje’s ‘English Patient” lies swathed in bandages, inscrutable,  an unknown character, a central entity of the novel and film until gradually he is revealed, unwrapped through a series of flashbacks.

Echo 2 is a continuation of my exploration of the energies of plant life, particularly  the calla lily . I have focused on deconstructing the shapes, on exploring  form and pushing it to pure abstraction, at the same time retaining the energy of the flower as it emerges. The work is always informed by my study of particular flowers, the colours, shapes and dynamics of each species being paramount, even if barely suggested or merely conjured on the canvas.

Crossing the Line is work from the Making a Mark Collective...

Christia's Pond My neighbour, Christa, has a couple of small ponds, not carefully manicured but largely left natural through the seasons.

Ozymandias uses the poem by Shelley "......Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!..." as inspiration to investigate the hubris and inhumanity of some of the world's most recent genocidal dictators, some long gone, some still in power, all men....

Pipe Dreams is a series of paintings expressing my dismay and anger over the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline that would run from the Alberta tar sands through pristine forests, over remote mountains, across hundreds of rivers and streams, endanger many species of wildlife and end in tiny Kitimat...