About me

My work draws inspiration from a life-in-flux and attempts to capture quiet moments of home and the feeling of settled-ness.

I am originally from PEI, Canada’s smallest province, but unique education opportunities led me across the globe to Abu Dhabi, Beijing, New York, and now the UK. My underlying mission throughout these travels has been to advance the clean energy transition, and I have worked in renewable energy engineering, climate policy, and most recently in sustainability strategy consulting. Art is my escape from this uptight life.

I am currently completing the MBA program at the University of Oxford.

my journey into art

I first picked up a paintbrush to pass the time when tuning in to 10pm online classes from my kitchen table. The COVID pandemic had disrupted the Master’s program I was completing in China and re-directed me home to PEI, Canada.

I was always good at creating things, but up until then I’d typically transferred these skills into engineering schematics, 3D models, and meticulous hand-written notes. Locked away in quarantine, I had no technical deliverables to prepare and instead turned my attention to artistic outputs.

I discovered a set of watercolour paints that had undergone 20-years of freeze-thaw cycles in my unheated cottage and got underway. I first drew inspiration from myriad items in my lockdown life: an overworked coffee machine, rotting bananas, birch trees from daily walks.

My skills increased over time - but so did my stress levels. Watercolour is an unforgiving medium and I soon found my mistakes unforgivable. Fretting over protractor angles, lining up precise ruler lines, measuring perfectly placed borders - I grew caught up transferring my typical technical rigour into my artistic expression.

Then, something changed. For the first time, I gave up on my constant pursuit of perfection and allowed myself to find beauty in a flawed process. Rapid trusting pen strokes. Confident bright washes. Uninformed yet ambitious colour layers. Art became an outlet to embrace imperfection in my otherwise measured, analytical, and high-stakes life.

I hope you find equal beauty and inspiration in my process and the pieces created through it!