I am a Canadian artist working in fibre based media. I define my work in the context of fine art, using fibres and threads to illustrate my ideas.

My work has involved depicting landscape images through hand dyed and woven blankets and scarves. I have explored various aspects of the Atlantic Canadian landscape and represented those views through warm woven wool blankets.

More recently my work has taken a more conceptual turn. Continuing with looking at landscapes and geography but in a more emotional way, defining my own identity as a Canadian. I began my studies as a Masters student in the United Kingdom in September of 2005, being displaced from my home gave me a new perspective of my Canadian nationality. I began exploring my own identity, relating to my family and the space that I am surrounded by when living in Canada. Things that I do, my lively hood, is my own definition of what it means to me to be a Canadian.

I think the proximity of the urban environment to the rural environment is a defining factor in Canadian culture, being able to experience rural unspoilt places and horizons that are not cropped or contained. Recently I have been exploring the significance of these spaces between urban centers.

I began thinking about the major differences between places, I consider space as a defining factor of Canada's geography. Knowing the land and the area around you is an idea I explore in my work, also the horizon line, and how horizons give definition to where we are. Recent projects have involved a documentation of the colours in the land around me, showing how warm and comforting colours can be, even in a varied climate .

I am currently working on a series of maps that are a documentation of the place I am from, I am making the maps by stitching into dyed wool fabric. Maps give definition and visual references to a place, so you know where to go and where you are. Trails and pathways you may take through your own property may not be recognized in a commercially produced map, therefore to many people they do not exist. Knowing your home well enough that you can look at a map of it and follow in your mind, off of the beaten road, picturing the trees that grow there, is an idea I consider.

Other projects currently involve documenting the landscape and imagery in the Yukon, where I am presently living. I have been using local plants to dye pieces of wool fabric. Upon which I embellish with stitching that is inspired by my surroundings. I also work in coloured inks and watercolour paper drawing images of vegetables, cakes and domestic tools.

I think of my work as a way to externalise my feelings about rural communities and the people that live off of their land and know it. An admiration of reading the land and following intuition. I will continue to explore these ideas through my art.