I was born in a northern
Canadian pulp & paper mill town. Ice and snow covered my world for
eight months of the year. As a young girl I learned of family pioneers
clearing their newly claimed tracts and avidly read stories of Arctic
explorers trapped by ice, forced to eat their rawhide laces. The forest
was my playground, yet I was intensely aware from a young age that our
family income was derived from the trees. I have remained conscious of
the monetary value of nature and I can not separate it from the raw
beauty that I witnessed every day. My work is a reflection of this
strange dichotomy.
I have lived in California
since 1994 and graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with my
MFA (Painting) in 2006.