My paintings are time and process-based works that combine elements of layering, systems of accrual, and color. I allow and encourage the build-up of paint to act in a three dimensional manner, at times to the point of doing away with the support altogether. These layers of paint function as a way to mark the passage of time, but also reveal the paints’ inherent materiality as it begins to take on its own shape. I select the colors based on personal systems, sometimes based on the text from a book that I am reading or lyrics of a song, other times reflecting a telephone call home to Saskatchewan, or the colors of the clothing worn by people who visit my studio throughout that day.

Each layer is made by pouring acrylic paint onto trays, and then peeling after drying. Stacking the layers transforms the thin sheets into sculptures. Each sheet representing time, memories, and emotions that “literally pile up.”  The results are are rainbow-colored, cake-like explorations of time.

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