Naturescapes
As a child at our cottage near Haliburton Ontario I remember no street lights, few cars and many stars. Humid lake water mingled with wafting breezes of evergreen. As I grew I looked for the comfort of these memories. Cherishing how my senses took in all that was around me, mixing and swirling impressions in my mind’s eye until I was living in a made up world based on where I’d been but enhanced by my imagination. As I grew I recalled this process of day dreaming and enhancing what I had witnessed. This became where I “jump off from” when painting Nature’s elements.
I paint the Canadian landscape in colours that are more reminiscent of my Caribbean parent’s lilting way of speaking than any particular colour theory. I exaggerate and embellish movement to express a story that engages the viewer. My artistic practice has become the response I learnt as a child at the cottage—witnessing nature, wrapping it in my imagination and “jumping” into the fantasy pool where magic lives and fragrances are evergreen. I engage these devices to invite the viewer to linger longer over my work and inhabit the landscapes I paint—reality, imagination and fantasy intermingling, celebrating the natural world.
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Additional Naturescapes can be found under Lazuline in the Collaborations section.