About Me

Born 1963 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. The North Atlantic codfish moratorium of 1992 led to a mass immigration. Just like many fellow Islanders I left my homeland, but my new home would become Portugal. The beautiful seascapes and the resilience of maritime people on both sides of the ocean inspire my work. Art making and art research overlap following life experiences; the medium changes as the art evolves.

Graduating from nursing in 1986, I returned to academics to receive a Bachelor’s in Visual Arts in 2008 and then a Master’s in Contemporary Artistic Creation in 2022. This intertwining of worlds raises more questions than answers. Conventions and ideas meet the material at hand to create an authentic aesthetic experience. The aesthetics of art takes on the aesthetics of relations and nature. Not seen within the contours of the material present or the idea, but in a way that is more equalitarian, allowing contemporary art to reach more people and places, in particular the artist.