I am an art therapist on Bowen Island, BC. I care deeply about narrative photography: the more ambiguous, banal and psychological the better.
I have been photographing trees, shrubs, and people since the 1960’s, initially processing film in my basement, then in my high school and university darkrooms, and later using polaroid cameras. I now work digitally.
In the 1970’s I studied ceramics and photography at Franconia College, NH, with Eileen Cowan, Robert Fichter and Emmet Gowin. I studied printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC in the 1980’s, and pursued a career showing monoprints internationally through the 1980’s and 1990’s. In the mid 1990’s my passions for depth psychology and art blended into a new profession as a registered art therapist.
Some of my influences are abstract painters (Robert Motherwell and Cy Twombly), psychologists and theorists (Carl Jung, D.W. Winnecott, Jean Randolph), and photographers (Brassaï, André Kertész, Alec Soth and William Eggleston).