My work explores nature's microcosms and macrocosms and how within each lies the other. A seed for example, holds the entire blueprint for a life, and represents the divine design within all things.
Part of a group exhibition at The Arts & Letters Club of Toronto during December 2020, Three Black Walnuts, explores our reverence for nature, while we simultaneously, and uncontrollably, consume it. Based on close-up drawings of walnuts that have been eaten and discarded by red squirrels, the image suggests both primordial prayer mandala, and symbol of brash, 21st Century corporate commodification.
Three Black Walnuts
2019
60”x24”
Gouache on masonite
Totem
2019
18”x24”
China pencil and oil pastel on paper
Black Walnut Trio
2018
each 14”x20”
Gouache on masonite
Staged Pantomime (D’après Juan Sanchez Cotán)
2019
16”x12”
China pencil and India ink on card
Green Tangle
2020
9”x12”
Gouache and acrylic paints on carved wood (low relief)