If you go to the canvas with joy and love in your heart, somehow it comes off on the canvas -Wilson Hurley

I don't remember a time when art was not an important part of my life.  As a child, paints and paper were never in short supply and I was blessed with a family that nurtured my creative expression.  Early on, I set about trying to explore and depict the endless paintings and drawings I saw in the world around me.  Being a child of a military family, I was always provided with new subject matter as we traveled from coast to coast:  a view of the ferry at North Sydney, a hilltop farm in St. Louis du Ha Ha, or incredible walls of rock as the trans Canada highway wove its way through rugged northern Ontario.  Years later, I still find myself awestruck as I try to capture my visions of this beautiful country.

My current focus has been on capturing the changing Alberta landscape as  rural life becomes less of a way of life, and society more centralized.  I am presently working on a series of grain elevator paintings entitled "Disappearing Sentinels".  This focuses on the dwindling numbers of grain elevators left on the Alberta skyline - this once proud symbol of the prairies, and center of many farming communities, soon to be lost forever.

In addition to my ongoing landscape work, my latest efforts have been focused on still life painting.  I strive to uncover the beauty in the ordinary, the items in our lives that generally go unnoticed.  I enjoy combining different objects, textures and moods in a way that enhances what might otherwise be considered mundane.