For 18 years I travelled across Canada as a network television producer for CBC, based in Ottawa.

For many years after, I continued travelling and sometimes working in India, Mexico, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, North Africa and Europe. I’ve been a journalist, an advertising copywriter, a graphic designer, a waitress, and an English professor. Somewhere along the way I started painting.

The visual impact of those journeys continues to inspire me: the cool greys of cathedrals and the riotous reds of temples, the rich designs in carpets woven by hand and loom, and always, the blue depths of the seas. I am, I suppose, still a restless soul, and painting grounds me.

I also know the only way I can make sense of my world is by attempting to put it on canvas.

My work is held in collections in Canada (Vancouver, Ottawa, Saskatoon), Seattle, Hawaii and Bangkok.