"where it all began" Painting

My work has always been informed by my consciousness of being in the world. The world that I am in has a relationship to situations and activities that can be shared by everyone. My work exhibits all the hallmarks of an inquisitive and critical mind...mine. This painterly critical pose results in a wide panorama of personal and social ironies. A woman walking alone may be all one sees, but the background shows a quite different story; and my work in dimensional figurative scheme has taken a few different scales. I work from large canvases to matchbook size miniatures and smaller. The content of my work has been informed by years of travelling across Canada and the United States, and outside North America. I do tend to see human relationships as situations that require a second guess. That artistic vision is the basis for many series of paintings. I work in series a lot, and that is because I tend to think in terms of story and narrative images. Sometimes a series is like a storyboard for a film. It situates the viewers mind in such a way that the construction of a story just seems very real - like, hey! this happened to me! So there is a strong empathy between the subject of my paintings and the response from the viewer. Most of my subject matter is informed by life experiences. I painted, probably all my life and have painted hundreds of works. I paint because I wish to give an expression to the many experiences that have formed the person that I am growing up and living in Ontario and being a student of the world around me.