Artist Statement
Verses from Tagore on missing the day a lotus bloomed, and a moonlit desert crossing from the literary western “No Country for Old Men” have inspired some of these compositions. My work is heavily influenced by poetry, magic realism literature, the fading recollections of a childhood in India and my new life in rural Alberta.
My medium is oil paint using six pigments. Before beginning a piece, I prepare a wood panel and create thumbnail sketches to plan the values, chroma, and composition.