Cabin Series
Amma’s Kitchen, 2019, oil on canvas, 48x36in
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The family cabins are an important part of my personal history. I paint these places of my upbringing to better understand why I see the world as I do today. The cabins offered a pause to the turmoil of life during the hot summer months on Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. When I began the Cabin Series, I did so with the mindset that if I didn't look back to my past, I would never be able to move forward as an artist. My deep need for reflection was further intensified by the sudden loss of my father shortly after the series began, in 2017. This event forced me into a new place where I no longer felt a sense of control. That is when my relationship with paint fundamentally and irreversibly changed. We had traded places and I was no longer the driver.