About the Artist
I have always been an arts & crafts kind of person. Even as a child, I would either be drawing in my notebooks or making some type of craft during my spare time. After receiving my high school diploma, I moved to Ontario and worked as a computer support technician. Upon my return to Newfoundland I attended College of the North Atlantic (CNA) and graduated with a diploma in Multimedia Development. During that program I received the Aliant Women in Non-traditional IT Programs Scholarship. Two years later I graduated with a Visual Arts diploma and received the highest award from CNA, the President’s Medal of Excellence.
My focus in art is printmaking, more specifically the relief process. Recently I have started to explore Newfoundland nature as the source of my inspiration, butterflies, flowers, wildlife, etc. My desire is to create prints that will evoke new realities to be appreciated by those who wish to enjoy my work.
When I head into the studio where each plate gets inked up, a larger sheet of damp paper is placed on top and it gets passed through the press. What most amazes me about the printmaking process is how different the plate is from the finished piece. There is a magic that happens as the paper and plate go through all that pressure, inks mix, and texture is created.