Where the Work Begins: Nature, Process, and Practice. A Canadian Artist Inspired by Nature in Muskoka, Ontario.

There’s something about being in nature that shifts the way I see.

Not in a dramatic sense, but in quieter ways – the way light settles across water, how forms hold themselves in space, how everything is constantly changing while appearing still. It’s in those moments that most of my work begins.

I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in Muskoka, Ontario, working across painting, sculpture, and earth-based practices. My process doesn’t start with a fixed outcome. It starts with attention – materials, environments, and small observations gradually shaping the direction of the work as it develops.

Painting allows me to hold onto atmosphere – layering light, texture, and movement to create landscapes that feel both familiar and unsettled. My sculpture work, often created in clay and mixed materials, moves into something more tactile – forms that can be held, turned, and experienced physically. Animals, creatures, fungi, and organic structures emerge through this process, somewhere between observation and imagination.

Working directly in nature adds another layer. Using stone and natural materials, the work becomes temporary – shaped by balance, time, and the environment itself. These pieces are not meant to last. They exist in a moment, and then return to it.

Across all mediums, there is a constant movement between control and release. Between building something intentionally, and allowing it to become something else entirely.

This space – between what is seen and what is felt, between structure and change – is where the work lives.

This blog will be a place to share that process. New paintings, clay sculptures, and environmental works as they evolve, along with the ideas and environments that shape them.

For collectors, galleries, and those drawn to nature-based contemporary art, this is an open window into the practice.