Black Duck Gallery and Gifts
shows Nova Scotia artists

For the past fifteen years I have loved the Intuitive Painting method of pouring watercolours, inks, gouaches, dyes, and/or acrylics on paper, cloth or canvas. Every painting is a surprise and a thrill with meaningful messages in the images and colour combinations.

The paintings are always influenced by the places and people where they were created. In Peru, some were done beside a mountain-top temple. In Molokai, it was amongst the ruins of an ancient School of Sorcery. In New Zealand, on a cliff over the Pacific. After a winter in Hawaii and New Zealand, I poured paintings in April on our way home beside British Columbia's Spotted Lake, which is sacred to the Nk'Mip people. Outside, the blowing wind and rocky ground manipulate the watery paints in their own special ways.

My passion for stones and beads led to stringing them together into necklaces, bracelets and earrings using antique, vintage, contemporary, semi-precious stone, wood, lampwork glass and shell beads from many countries of the world: Kenya, Czech Republic, South Africa, Peru, the United States, and Canada, including Cape Breton Island. Lost wax casting is such an amazing, silver smithing tool that I have only touched upon with chunky silver rings, which make me smile during the process and after.

I look forward to showing you my paintings and jewellery at the Black Duck.