I acknowledge that I live and work as a settler on Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional lands of the Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota Nations, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. I am grateful for the ongoing presence and stewardship of Indigenous communities.

I was born in 1960 in Fiske, Saskatchewan, Canada, to German-speaking Mennonite parents. My ancestors were farmers, originally from the Zaporizhia region of present-day Ukraine, who arrived in 1923 and established themselves on this land.

As a teenager, I received early formal training in life drawing at the Banff Centre, and later earned a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. I currently live and work in Saskatoon.

My artwork first came to public attention through portraiture, and later, in the mid-1990s, with expansive wall drawings. These site-specific works, composed of numerical sequences in a variety of coloured fonts, explored themes of seasonal time and impermanence.

This diaristic approach has evolved considerably since then, and in early 2008 I began a personal challenge to complete one painting each month. Structured around the yearly calendar, the intention was to reimagine traditional forms of record-keeping. Over the years, however, this working method has expanded to include photography, multiple paintings, and works on paper. Each piece is created in response to a specific month.

This production has since taken on a contemplative rhythm, marking time through close attention to natural life cycles and the practice of artistic documentation. In the years that followed, my observations of planetary change began to shape this process. I have come to see the labour of art-making as part of a broader public awareness that connects agricultural traditions with the seasonal patterns studied in phenology.

Inscribed by a sense of place and craft, my interests are frequently found in this distinctive engagement with time, where meaning can surface through the subtle turns of unconscious collective memory.