Social Issues

Environmental, Political and Social Issues

Being moved by the political and social challenges 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.
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.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.
Toni Cade Bambara

Light Upon Light

Category : Environment, Ethnic Cleansing, Indigenous Issues, War & Conflict

Olive trees are a symbol of steadfastness, Palestinian national identity, connection to their land, and a crucial source of income.

Let It Be a Tale

Category : Ethnic Cleansing, War & Conflict

Let It Be a Tale is a dedication to Palestinian poet and educator Dr. Refaat Alareer and the children of the Gaza Strip.

Avoiding the Shadows

Category : Mental Health, Womens Issues

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, War & Conflict

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 & Conflict

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

Bugsplat

Category : Ethnic Cleansing, War & Conflict

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

Goodbye A Genocide

Category : Ethnic Cleansing, Indigenous Issues

‘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.