Where Land Meets Self

An evolving body of work exploring place, belonging, movement and the inner landscape

Where Land Meets Self is an ongoing artistic inquiry into our relationship with the places we inhabit and the ways those places become part of us

Rooted in my experience of living at the edge of the Boreal Forest in Manitoba, the project is beginning to move beyond a single landscape. I am interested in travelling to different places and spending time within their particular rhythms: their light, weather, terrain, water, vegetation, seasons and ways of being

What happens when we enter a landscape that is unfamiliar, carrying our own sense of home with us?

I am curious about the feeling of place, what it is that makes somewhere feel like home, and how that feeling might emerge visually from very different landscapes. A northern forest, an island, a desert, a coastline: each carries its own character, yet there may be something beneath the differences that connects us all.

There is a pulse we carry with us

The work explores that meeting point between the particular and the universal, between the landscape outside us and the landscape within us. Through painting, drawing and movement, I am interested in what surfaces when I spend enough time in a place to listen rather than simply observe

The paintings may begin with direct experience of a landscape, but they are not intended to be literal representations of it. I am interested in what becomes translated through the body. Colour, rhythm, gesture, memory, sensation and feeling. The place becomes a catalyst, and the work becomes a record of the relationship

This project is still unfolding

Each journey will become an opportunity to ask the same questions in a different place:

What does this landscape awaken in me?

What makes a place feel like home?

What do we carry with us, wherever we go?

And what remains when the landscape changes?

Through these encounters, I hope to discover how a sense of place can become visible and whether, beneath all the differences of landscape, we might recognize something familiar. The same pulse moving through us, wherever we are