Batik is an ancient resistance technique traditionally practiced in fibre arts. Batik uses various “resists” to prevent dye from penetrating areas on the medium of choice. When I work, I am interested in the colour that results outside a predetermined shape and I value the effects of empty space as well as form. My hope therefore, is that the viewer might see and consider what is present here through resistance, listen to the silence and contemplate their daily travels as they are touched and turned by my obstructions.
My roots are firmly entrenched in Canadian and Atlantic culture – music, literature, poetry and at a broader level, by manuscripts from the Middle Ages, and from abstract art. An avid solo traveler, I’ve been stimulated by art in Arizona, Peru, the South Pacific, the UK, Greece, Egypt, Jordan, Nepal, Thailand and south-west Japan. The richest influences have been those experienced while high-altitude trekking above 5,500m (18,500 ft) into very thin air. In my every daily breath, I carry the marvel that biological and human elements exist on the very edge of our atmosphere.
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