"These expressive figurative works combine images and text to explore the often invisible work of Nova Scotia women in the fishery–both as fish packers and as fishers.

The paintings draw on many sources: religious iconography echoing the reliance on faith to sustain fishers and their families through storms and loss; classical symbolism relating to the age-old biblical work of fishing; and folk traditions and motifs which decorated and enriched domestic lives in the coastal communities. 

Hopefully, I have succeeded in celebrating aspects of the seaward lives of the many women fish packers who work in small sheds along Nova Scotia’s South Shore and the fisher women who earn their living from the sea."