Growing up on a farm in southwestern Ontario exposed me to the colours and textures of nature. Even though my family and teachers encouraged me to pursue the arts, I chose to follow the health care/research/education path. However, once I moved to Kingston sixteen years ago, I sought more balance in my life, and once again began to focus on my creative interests. I have a passion for rich, bold colours and texture and the effects of light and shadow of everything that is. Art is life, life is art. Life provides the inspiration, art provides the expression. Each medium, whether photography, painting or fibre art, is a vehicle for expressing how I "see" and "feel" about world that I live in, whether it is a rose in a garden, or birch trees found along the rugged trails of a park, or an old weathered building.