Spring on the Farm Painting

I am a native of Prince Edward Island, who has made Ottawa my home for the past 50 years. I am presently a member of the Artists of Stonebridge and the Manotick Art Association in Ottawa. I strive to fill my work with the ambience of place and time rather than details. I look for the predominant quality of the subject, and fill the work with saturated colour and gestural brushwork to express that quality. Believing that first impressions are very important, I feel that my work must make an impact on the viewer from first glance. I hope that I can draw on the observer's own interpretation of what they are seeing. In that way I feel I might involve the viewer's imagination and personal memories of places and experiences from their lives.