I am a nonrepresentational painter living in Atlantic Canada. I had thought about what I do as abstraction but non-representational painting is a better description. The words you use matter. I'm not abstracting from the world around me. I'm making my invisible interior being, visible. I'm influenced by my experience in nature but I paint from within. I began painting at the Saidye Bronfman School of Fine Arts in Montreal in the 1990’s. There I was exposed to the work of Les Automatistes (Paul-Émile Borduas, Marcelle Ferron, Jean-Paul Riopelle) part of the surrealist movement of the last century. Painting which incorporates the subconscious is tremendously creative and satisfying.