Social Issues

Including Cultural, Environmental & Political Challenges

Being moved by the political and social issues of the world around me is something I cannot avoid. It therefore becomes an act of healing for me to express that which I find most impossible to comprehend. Because of this, I strive to understand how the experiences we have as human beings affect us. What is our individual and collective responsibility and where do we draw the line between awareness and action versus complicity?

Avoiding the Shadows

Category : Mental Health

Avoiding The Shadows – Self Portrait. Oil & Acrylic 16″ x 20″ $460.00 On depression, family and finding your path through the dark days.

Play Outside

Category : Poverty

Play Outside - A Portrait of My Mother at Two - 24″ x 24″ Oil on gallery wrapped canvas $620.00

Un-Entitled

Category : Womens Issues

Un-Entitled - Self Portrait. Portraits out of Context ~ a series to raise awareness of our privilege. Even when sometimes it feels as though we may not have privilege.

Settlers and Refugees

Category : Poverty

My father’s family were persecuted German Russians living in Siberia. Settlers and refugees. There is some healing in the discovery of my family in the many ways I never knew them.

Time Out Literally

Category : Environment

Time Out (Literally). Two of my grand babies on the ‘time out stair’.This moment invoked the image of a global time out days after this picture was taken.

As They Danced …

Category : War

As They Danced was painted after the devastating news that USA decided to pull out of Syria and leave the Kurds

Bugsplat | Pint-sized Terrorist

Category : War

Bugsplat is yet another term that encourages the separation which serves to desensitize the taking of a human life. Oil on board 16" x 20" CAD $480.00

Goodbye a Genocide

Category : Indigenous

‘Goodbye – a Genocide’ is a tribute to the residential school survivors in Canada, to the families of those who survived and to those children who did not.

A Prayer for Syria

Category : War

A Prayer for Syria was inspired by my two dear friends who were caught up in the Syrian civil war. Their lives had been torn apart by the upheaval.

Muskrat Falls Dam

Category : Indigenous

The highly destructive and extremely controversial Muskrat Falls Dam, in Newfoundland & Labrador.

Crouched On Depression

Category : Mental Health

Crouched-on depression is a work on the subject of depression by Canadian figurative artist Kathryn Kaiser.

Collateral Damage

Category : War

“the unintentional or incidental damage affecting facilities, equipment, or personnel, occurring as a result of military actions directed against targeted enemy forces or facilities."