After studying Fine Arts at University of the Fraser Valley (1994-97), I spent a year teaching children in Lebanon before continuing studies at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1998-2000). Many of my works involved aspects of fibre arts. I had taken to embroidery, for example, attempting to create quickly jotted down thoughts in Post-it note style, but used painstaking stitches to accomplish the task, often on fabric that obscured the text.

I was unable to continue in my final year at NSCAD when my mother died. I made paper with some of her ashes and continued embroidering.

In Ontario (2010), I based a two year long project on a muumuu-like pattern from the 1970s. My only boundaries were that each rendition must start with the original pattern, not be repeated, and use only rescued materials. Some renditions were delightfully silly. 76 dresses were made, and many shapes and materials explored, before we moved to Montreal in 2012. During our time in Ontario, I also co-founded and ran a monthly art market at St. Catharines Market Square.

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In Montreal, we were welcomed immediately into an ambitious homeschooling community in St-Henri where I took on the role of arts instructor in various capacities including printmaking, sewing, building projects, drawing, drama, baking and urban sketching. This continued until 2016. Afterwards, I enrolled in teaching programs with Ministère de la Culture et des Communications to offer art classes to public school children and also worked as a creative instructor for the LBPSB lunch programs at Riverview Elementary.

I began creative writing in 2011 and joined the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. In 2014 I became a coordinator of Montreal gatherings, and still occupy that role. I’ve written novels, picture books, and a documentary style graphic novel is in progress. I am also an illustrator.

In 2015 and 2017, I was invited to design dresses and accessories for performances in collaboration with TouVa Performance Art Research Collective.

I fell in love with Urban Sketching on location as a way to know my community. Not only the buildings, but also the passersby who would ask to see what I was up to. In studio, as I am fascinated with skill building, I paint anything from portraits to cityscapes to toilet paper rolls in different mediums.

Oral history and ancestry has occupied my thoughts over the past few years. After facing breast cancer in 2019, I began to record conversations with my grandmother, also a breast cancer survivor, about her life and her memories of family members before her. I’m not sure what I will do with the files yet, but ideas are brewing.

I recorded my family’s daily experience of the first full year of the Covid-19 pandemic in the form of an online illustrated journal. I tell my kids it’s a historical document.

I am exploring my relationship to the identity of a nice girl and how it affects mental and bodily health – including thinking about generational and societal underpinnings.

I am currently working as a full-time illustrator for La Vie en Rose and think a lot about how to walk the line between livelihood and climate change. What does transition to a greener economy look like for the average person? How can people feel empowered?