Part of Body Voyage - Return to the Sacred series

This work was done for my graduating year at Brock in chalk pastel and Vaseline.  I used an image in the newspapers of a group of women running in a sporting event of which I was one of the participants but in the photo just my arm can be seen.  I exaggerated  the colour of their skin to look like the layer of muscle underneath the skin.  This work was done on 6 pieces of Mayfair paper and is Wall size.

My husband and I about 1993 went on a bike and cruise trip where we would go on cycling journey?s on several islands.  The first island stop was Aruba.  The couple who organized the trip sent me back a photo of my self and Ron riding in the section where the glacier left big boulder rocks from the US West on this island.  I love the picture so I did a painting from it.  This pictures was in the Nov-March 1999 invitational group show on the sporting life at the The Gallery Stratford.

This drawing was done in my last year at Brock in 1989.  I was exploring the use of chalk pastel and Vaseline and the theme of sports.  This drawing was given to the Arts Department upon request by the Professors to be left in their collection.  

5 X 5 feet

This work was done for my graduating year at Brock in 1989 in chalk pastel and Vaseline.  I used an image in a magazine of a wrestler in pose.

Part of Body Voyage - Return to the Sacred

This work is 30"X24" in Oils using the glazing and wet on wet technique. 

30"X 24"  SOLD

This work is 30"X24" in oils using the wet on wet technique. 

This work is 30"X24" in oils using the glazing and wet on wet technique.  

This work is 30"X24" in oils using the glazing and wet on wet technique. 

This painting is a play on Rousseau?s painting called the Dream where he has a nude looking out to the male gaze.  I twist this around showing my self on a weight room aparatize lifting leg weights and keeping my focus within.   The background foliage comes from a picture I took of the indoor garden at the Burlington Art Center.  It is 20 x 16 inches.

There is nothing like the amazing experience of snorkeling of floating on water.   You feel one with the water like the state of bliss and inner peace.

This piece was completed in 2002 and is a series of 8 paintings that are 8X10 inches.