At first, I painted what I saw out the window, down the road, along the coast.  As I re-familiarized myself with the Newfoundland terrain, my mark making became more confident, adventurous and abstracted. I was starting to make reference to the landscape, instead of representing it. There is an enormous sense of freedom and expansion for me in this development, allowing for stronger intuition and imagination to guide the process. 

Curiosity about place, community, and the physicality of the natural environment, is what drives my creative practice. In exploring the rhythms and patterns of the landscape in Pouch Cove, my response to the exterior world began to shift towards an investigation of my own interior world.

Layers of Immersion presents an artistic narrative of the connections between place and personal growth. This body of work reflects my experience of deep immersion and close observation of the natural environment alongside the development of a deeper understanding of self.