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Oldman River Valley Painting Series

I'm an oil painter with a background in environmental science, which I studied in the coulees of Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge is my home and it was there while studying figure drawing at the university, that I first truly saw myself as beautiful when I saw the lines and modelling of my own body in the wind-drawn curves of the coulees.

The process for these artworks started with sketches done on site with earth toned conte crayon. In the studio, I then used the sketches as patterns for small 9" X 12" colour studies in oil on gallery wrapped canvas. Each painting is titled by the latitude and longitude coordinates of the sketch location so that they are not only an artistic expression of the land, but also can be used as a historical document and a unique form of geographic/geological data.

49.67277, -112.82921 v.2 (2022), oil on canvas, 12” x 9”

Annora Variations

We peer into a landscape, both lush and spare; a sky that is not quite a sky, a cascade of hills that are not quite hills. We may feel draw in by luscious tones of coral and cream, but also warned away by a sense feeling of blood-flushed flesh. These curves are made out of flesh: the flesh of soil, sand, and ancient gravel, hydrated with infrequent rains that trickle through her stratum. She is alive, beautiful, and generous.

While sketching the forms of the coulees, a beautifully unique geological phenomenon, carved gently, as it is, by the warm west winds rolling over the Rocky Mountains, I train my own hand to make the forms.

This sense memory is then used to translate a sketch of human body to a vison of the earth as a fleshy body. She is like us: beautiful, imperfect, sometimes terrible, and sometimes powerless and submissive. She is alive and beautiful and deserving of respect.

These are unvarnished oil paintings on 9” x 12” gallery wrapped (1.5” deep) canvas.