My early training was as a painter at the New School of Art, Toronto. Later studying Landscape Architecture, I also worked as a designer, garden educator and graphic artist before turning to photography full time in 2006, as a commercial and editorial photographer of gardens, food and their creators .
After moving to a rural farming community in 2012, I began to photograph farm animals and realized that these animals have emotions and interior lives. I wanted to illuminate their individuality by recognizing them as some-one not some-thing.
My photography evolved into an art practice through through a fusion of portrait photography and creative digital painting. I realized that I could bring together my love for both painting and photography, a natural outgrowth of my early training as painter and more than twenty years as a designer and photographer.
