Someone once told me...” Paint what you love.” I love flowers and so I am inspired to paint them. I prefer to express my love of florals in a more contemporised way than rather than the usual style of flowers in a garden or a vase. I like to focus on a single bloom. My inspiration for my style of painting comes from my love of all contemporary design. I am inspired by such artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Lauren Harris, and also an Ontario artist who by coincidence lived in the neighbourhood where I grew up; The Scarborough bluffs....Doris McCarthy. I love the bold contemporary shapes in their paintings and the bold colours and draw my inspiration from them.
I come from an artistic family and although I didn’t attend Art College my father did. Both my paternal Grandmother and my Father were artists. Their medium was mostly watercolour where mine is Acrylic.
Throughout my life I have mostly enjoyed careers in artistic types of fields, including Make- up Art, and also Esthetics which is the art of skincare and nail technology. I am currently a Home Stager, which is the art of decorating homes in order to help them sell faster and for top dollar.