My PortfolioA collection of works exploring memory, atmospheric landscapes and narrative wildlife.
My practice uses landscapes as a means to explore memory; how places hold emotion and shift over time, leaving behind lingering fragments.
Through sfumato glazing and layered color, alongside expressive mark-making, I aim to capture the sensation of returning to a place held in memory.
Seeds of Memory
24 × 24 in., Acrylic paint on canvas. (2026)
This work explores the quiet transmission of culture across generations. Considering the cultural exchange between Italy and Canada through migration, memory, heritage and ecological structures. Two Cardinals are depicted perched within the branches of a fig tree.To subtly symbolize generations, the figs are depicted in different stages of development. The fig tree represents Italian heritage and the resilience of ancestors to take root and flourish in new environments. The Northern Cardinals, Ontario’s provincial bird represents resilience, adaptation, and remembrance. Together they create a merging of cultures, traditions and identities.
This work is a reflection of ancestral migrations and continuity; it considers memory not as a fixed moment but as something that grows, adapts and endures.
Memories of the Highlands of Scotland
A series explored in 2025
Memories of the Highlands: Glen Etive
11 × 14 in., Acrylic paint on canvas board. (2025)
Set in the Scottish Highlands, Glen Etive is shaped by rocky terrain, flowing water, and shifting light. Through layered color and textured mark-making, this work explores how memory distills a place into fragments, moments of light, movement and surface.
This piece is currently located in the United Kingdom in a private collection.
Memories of Skye
24 × 36 in., Acrylic paint on canvas. (2025)
Drawn from a moment while traveling through the Isle of Skye, this piece reflects a quiet interruption within the landscape, a weathered fence line leaning into a vast shifting horizon.
Through layered color and textured mark-making, the scene becomes less about a fixed place and more about the way memory holds onto fragments ; atmosphere, distance and feeling. Subtle transitions of blues and greens , softened through glazing techniques, create a sense of depth that mirrors the way landscapes are remembered rather than seen; hazy, expansive, and quietly enduring.
This work is currently on display at the Southfield Community Center located in Caledon, ON. (Fall 2025-Spring 2026)
Memories of Skye II
24 × 36 in., Acrylic paint on canvas. (2025)
Positioned from the viewpoint of a single sheep, this piece invites the viewer into a quiet moment of observation. A gaze cast across water toward a distant presence. The landscape unfolds through layered greens and shifting light, grounded by the movement of the river cutting through the terrain.
Through textured mark-making and subtle glazing techniques, the scene reflects the way memory isolates moments; a glance, a feeling of separation and connection existing at once. The perspective places the viewer within the space, blurring the line between observer and subject.
This work is currently on display at the Southfield Community Center located in Caledon, ON. (Fall 2025- Spring 2026)
Large Scale Projects
Selected works demonstrating large-scale and site-responsive practice
Seeds of Memory, The Aielli Mural Project
Large-scale exterior mural, acrylic on masonry. (2026)
Located in Aielli, Italy. Created through Borgo Universo in collaboration with Villa Charities.
Seeds of Memory explores memory, migration, and the ways personal histories become connected to place. The mural brings together two recurring symbols within my practice: the northern cardinal, associated with remembrance and resilience, and the fig tree, which reflects my own connection to Italian heritage and family memory.
Originally developed through my studio practice, the imagery was reimagined at an architectural scale to respond directly to the facade of the building. Branches, leaves, fruit and birds move around an existing window and doorway, allowing the architecture to become a part of the composition rather than simply a surface for it.
Completed on site in Aielli, the mural was built through layers of hand painted acrylic, translating the detail and expressive mark-making of my similar works into a large-scale public environment. Created as the first Canadian mural represented within Aielli’s international collection of public art, the project became an opportunity to connect personal memory with a place shaped by its own histories of migration, community, and cultural exchange.
International Public Mural
Commissioned MuralOctopus Mural
Approximately 22 × 10 ft., acrylic on indoor sealed walls with architectural elements. (2024)
Located at Conversate Seafood and Steakhouse, Hamilton, ON.
This large-scale interior mural was developed in response to the architectural constraints of a stairwell, using the octopus form to guide movement across multiple intersecting planes. The composition extends fluidly along the walls and railing, integrating with the space to create a sense of continuity and immersion.
Made through layered applications of acrylic, the surface balances fine detail with bold, readable forms, allowing the work to function both up-close and at a distance. The work responds to its upscale environment through controlled color, rhythm and repetition, transforming a transition space into a dynamic visual experience.
The project reflects approach rooted in adapting imagery to a complex, site-specific environment.
Volunteer Set PainterScenic Backdrops: A Forest Study
4 × 13 ft. (3 panels), acrylic matte paint on donated material.
Collaboration with the Village Theatre of Waterdown.
Production: Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike from April 17th - May 3rd 2026.
These large-scale backdrop panels were repurposed from a previous production and completely reimagined to form a forest environment alongside another backdrop. working across multiple surfaces, the focus was on building depth, movement, and readability from a distance, while ensuring the imagery remained responsive to the theatrical lighting conditions.
Through layered color and expressive mark-making, the panels were developed to integrate seamlessly with surrounding set elements, balancing painterly detail with clarity at scale.
This project reflects an ongoing expansion into large-scale, site-responsive work.
