Team sports didn’t interest me much when I was a kid and the straw that finally broke the sporting camel’s back was the fact that figure skating class always ended in tears unless Mom joined me on the ice… So we tried the arts.
My busy little hands found their match with crayons and finger paint, and a little artist was born. Painfully shy as a youngster, something shifted in grade 5 and I won the chatty Cathy award in my class. “Get this child on stage!”
Years of school musicals and in the classical choir, and a little singer had surfaced.  I had no idea what to do after high school, but a couple of years of work and travel led me to apply to the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, where my love affair with oil paint and most other things tactile and playful began.
Growing up in a home managed by a mother with a green thumb and parents with a keen eye for design, the house was abundantly full of fresh flowers, beautiful things and people coming and going. My interest in taking familiar objects and examining them in a new way, allowing the viewer to re-encounter them – close up, out of context and reframed – is an ongoing objective in my painting.
After school, a steady art practice in an East Vancouver studio ensued, until a road trip further east seemed way too tempting to pass up. So, we hopped in a station wagon and drove to Montreal. And so, what began as a group of six on the west coast evolved into a band of ten in Montreal, and my role as back-up singer in The Unsettlers was settled along with a solo singer/songwriter project.
I am currently living in Montreal, Quebec, writing and playing music, developing my art practice and working hard at juggling the two.