Carbon Trees + Mother Line is a series mixed media paintings with charcoal on paper, vellum and mylar.

The notion of this series of paintings is a conceptual one where consciousness is transmuted through trees in the form of patterns of symbols and glyphs.

After a wildfire cools and before the new growth begins these scenes of imaginary places lead the viewer to contemplate all possible ides and options that, represented by these invented patterns, become our reality.

The symbols and glyphs here have no actual meaning, they signal the unmanifest.

This initial part of the series is a monochromatic range of paintings. The use water colours and sketching/drawing are rendered in the traditional sense of Canadian landscape paintings contrasted with the raw sketchy ink and charcoal bringing attention to the robust and destructive nature of the fires.

In the studio are works underway of acrylic paintings on paper or panel and oil paintings on un-stretched canvas.