About Brenda,

(and, in my own words ....)

I am an abstract expressionist. My work has also been called "minimalist" by Jeanne Wilkinson. That is right too.

The work on the following pages is ten years give or take. I have earlier work that I am trying to find images for. So this web-site, will always be changing. There is photography, art and poetry.

I love art.

I love everything about and to do with art.

I love the way a gallery smells.

I like to think about all of the people who must have walked around the really old ones.

Art Supply stores, well, .... they are the best.

All of the neat new packages of paints and papers. Neatly stacked and organized.

.... marooned on a dessert island with an art supply store, Heaven!

In kindergarden, I wanted to make a drawing, but they didn't have any of the right colours, the paper was wrong, the crayons were wrong. I had a painting in my mind, and didn't know how to get it out! My first encounter with frustration as an artist.

The moon. Endlessly fascinated with it. Wrote a poem about it in grade three. "The Day the Moon Fell" I struggle to remember the words, but it had something to do with a chandelier - the mayor's idea to put it back in place with a chandelier ... how he did it, nobody knows, but from that day to this, the moon glows........

I've seen the most beautiful and mysterious moons, I've seen happy moons, sad moons, blue moons, harvest moons, Denver moons, Desert moons, but my favorite is my Hamilton moon- each one is different, yet they are all the same one.

The first artist I met who painted the moon, was Phil Stone in Hamilton in the '60's. He was the first small original painting I bought. His work was so unique, moons and stars and planets. Vivid symbols of the one constant in my life.

The next encounter with a moon artist was Anne Harris. She made a sculpture called "Luna" which was a piece of beautiful translucent white marble carved in the shape of a crescent moon, with a big silver disc in the middle. My second piece of original art.

Below, Celebration Moon was painted in '03 before I started using mineral powders. (Sold)

(all pages are in progress)