The Artist

These are the wanderings of a thoughtful mind, a passionate eye and an earth loving heart through the great wide world with camera and notebook.

I'm a freelance photographer, artist and wordsmith, someone with her roots planted deep in the good dark soil of the eastern Ontario highlands. After chalking up a wealth of experience in various corporate entities, I had dreams of flying on my own wings and opened the KerrdeLune Design Works. I've never been happier, and I've never looked back - but I sometimes wonder how I managed to survive toiling away in the entrails of large urban corporations for so many years.

There is a wildness to these elder days that feeds me. Nature is my canvas, and the north wind my brush - the seasons compose the symphony, orchestrate the score and write the choreography of my rambles. My happiest hours have always been spent in the woods and fields and fens of the eastern Ontario highlands with my soulmate and our canine companions, Cassie, Spencer, and now Beau. Irv, Cassie and Spencer have passed beyond the fields we know, and now it is Beau and I who ramble the highlands, paw in paw.

My camera is the lens through which I see earth and the heavens, connect with them in a profound, painterly and elemental way and filter my experience of the living world. Let's call it simply an ongoing study in Mono no aware, the Japanese expression which describes one's feelings when encountering impermanence and the transience of all things.

Silence and stillness are precious gifts. I love twilight, full moons, liminal spaces and the wisdom that sustains the cosmos. I confess cheerfully to a passion for whiskery trees, old age rivers, weathered rail fences and starry, starry nights. I entertain hopes of authenticity, wildness, rude good health and enlightenment somewhere up the trail, but for now I am content to ramble and wonder and just breathe in and out.