Celebrating Canada Through Art – 20 Years, 20 Paintings

It was July 1, 2006 when I stepped away from my full-time job to focus entirely on my life as an artist. I did not plan the date with intention, it simply arrived that way, almost as if Canada Day itself was quietly opening a door.

Since then, I have created well over 400 paintings. From this body of work, I have chosen 20 paintings to represent the first twenty years of my practice. This is 20 years told through 20 paintings.

The works selected for this list now live in prominent public collections, esteemed private collections, and a few remain available for collectors. Together, they form a cross-section of my commentary on Canadian culture and iconography.

These paintings reflect moments of storytelling rooted in my lived experience of Canada. They carry my ongoing dialogue with landscape, identity, and cultural symbolism, often shaped by travel and observation across the country. Some works lean into celebration, others into quiet critique. Some explore political undercurrents in Canada, while others speak more personally to my experience as a woman artist working within a national narrative.

These paintings represent my travels from coast to coast to coast in Canada and the people, places and stories I heard along the way. Taken together, they form a visual map of attention, curiosity, and connection, a record of how I have seen and felt Canada over two decades of painting. I invite you to move through them as you would a journey across the country itself, one image at a time, each offering its own view, its own memory, its own question.

20.  A Cup For Louise – collection of the Artist

19. On Guard – Colart Collection, Quebec, CA

18. Poppies For Louise – collection of the Artist

17. Under A Borealis Sky – private collection, Edmonton CA

16. Ride My Wake – private collection Edmonton, CA

15. Spirited Island – available through Willock & Sax Gallery in Banff

14. Monarch of The Arctic Realms – available through the Artist

13. The Conversation – available through the Artist

12. The Wild Life – Peck Collection, Edmonton, CA

11. Canadian Subconscious – private collection, Edmonton, CA

10. We Can Fit in My Canoe – Colart Collection, Quebec

9. Little Red Saltbox – private collection, Newfoundland, CA

8. Come On Just Let’s Go – Available through James Baird Gallery, Newfoundland

7. The Kiss – private collection, Edmonton, CA

6. The Prodigy – private collection, Montreal, CA

5. Pond Hockey Days – Private Collection, Victoria CA

4. Raised in the Sky – Private Collection, Ontario CA

3. Goalie’s Mask: red, white & Dryden – collection of the Artist

2. With Hearts On Our Sleeves – Private Collection, Ontario CA

1. Let Your Backbone Rise – Private Collection, Montreal CA

These twenty paintings are not a conclusion, but a waypoint. They mark two decades of looking closely, listening carefully, and translating Canada into colour, form, and story. Each one holds a fragment of a larger conversation that is still unfolding in the studio today.