Living mid-way between Niagara Falls and Toronto , I am surrounded by industry , architecture and nature . The beauty of the steel mills on the bay with their vertical stacks and billowing smoke stands in contrast to the escarpment where trees rise majestically along the edge of the mountain brow . In winter especially , the skeleton trees form
Out of the Ash , encaustic , concrete , metal , paper and image transfer on panel , 16 x 16 inches , 2014
beautiful silhouettes against the stark snow and even damaged ice laden trees retain their identity . This environment forms the themes and subject for my art while colours derived from shadows , rock , stone , concrete and metal become my palette .