Make what you want to see! This world needs us all to share our gifts. My passion and gift has always been for working in the color and texture of paint. I’ve been making art my entire life. I can't get away from it.
How would you describe your target audience or ideal customer? What do you think sets your brand apart for them?
Painting is a counterpose to rationality, knowing, certainty. It’s the in-between places, the threads to pick up and tug– or leave hanging for later. My work is for the curious, those open to open endings, in love with color and texture and excited by living with art that will unfold over time.
Could you share some of the key products/styles your brand offers and what makes them unique?
My work is never planned. Each surface is a conversation in time with the surface as shapes, colors and forms emerge. Certain elements circle back (some for decades, some for 6 months) but each work is truly one of a kind and never repeated–no plastic furniture
In my studio, the practice of painting is a vehicle of transformation; opening doors to healing, truth, towards freedom. The work is always ahead of me, previewing unfolding self-knowing. It’s a conversation with light and the darkest, dimmest places.
Can you describe your personal connection to the brand and how it reflects your values and passions?
Art is something that makes us human, and cannot be reduced into a commodity. The act of creation is the art of jailbreaking. Can I jailbreak my own habits? Will I know a door when I see it? If I paint a door, can I make it open? If I go in, can I get out?
What are some of the prominent sustainability initiatives or practices that you prioritize during your production process?
The beauty of working in a studio with fine materials is that everything is precious, sturdy and can have many lives. There is little to no waste in my studio. Paper and canvas get painted over until complete, paper that cannot take shape becomes shredded to make more paper.
My watercolor paintings are made with Beam Paints–a plastic-free, indigenous, women-owned paint company in M’Chigeeng First Nation in Ontario, Canada. I want every painter to know about and use their amazing paint stones.
