Originally from Saskatchewan and residing in Montreal for the last 15 years, I am an illustrator and a self-taught screenprinter. Since 2004 I have run Bree,ree, a small scale print studio. Photography, illustration, collage, stencil and letterpress have all found their way into my screenprinted works. My posters for art and music shows have been seen on city streets in Quebec, Canada and the United States, and my art prints have been exhibited in galleries and public spaces throughout Canada.
Working from a base of imagery culled internally — from memory, dreams, past experience — and externally — from my immediate surroundings — I create pieces that consciously allow for open interpretation and multiple perspectives within both the narrative and composition itself.
My approach to creative practice is improvisational and process-based. I work in the medium of silkscreen because it allows me to experiment with multiples of the same image; I change the image while I am printing, in some cases printing the same image on top of itself many times before my previous pull has had the chance to dry. Having been trained in the fields of architecture and urban planning, I am acutely aware of the process of construction in my work: both as regards the idea of building and creating as well as the construction of meaning. Through a repetition of simple forms and shapes — with an eye to qualities of transparency, light and colour — my work finds meditative resonance through the process of automatism and the inherent element of chance that characterise the printmaking process.
My prints tell me stories I don't consciously know much about, and that is important to me; this uncertainty is what ultimately makes me enjoy creating my work.
Some works are available for purchase here. To inquire about other prints or for any other information, please email.
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