Original watercolour paintings from my series ‘Springtime Premonitions’.
The works here have all been painted in the last two years and will be included in my solo exhibition at the Yukon Art Centre entitled “Springtime Premonitions”. The show loosely takes inspiration from the boom-and-bust cycles of the lynx and the hare, which has fascinated boreal ecologists for more than a century. In a time of climate crisis, however, such a delicate balance is threatened.
The work thus features motifs of hindsight and foretelling, either through a snow globe containing a precious scene from the past or a crystal ball gazing into the future. Glacial mountaintops remain snow-covered, but for how long? The Stellar Jay enters the scene, a beautiful, wise creature—but here in the North only because of the transforming climate. An apocalyptic imagery prompts the following questions: in what sense are we human and in what sense animal? How does place and environment contain us? How does myth and story help us make meaning of our searching? In what forms does the interplay between external and internal worlds take shape?
