Louise Bourgeois, Tracey Emin, and Pablo Picasso are a few of my favourite artists. Though not many would place these three beside each other, I see three artists whose artwork is created from something deep within them. Their acts of creation are not a manner of putting paint to canvas or plaster to a mold. There is a mood in their art that surfaces from their subconscious, from their personal lives, and from their perspectives on the immediate and modern world around them. It is a mood that I recognize in my own work.

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My father died when I was one. Though I didn’t realize it at the time, drawing became my coping mechanism. Looking at that little girl I used to be, I see a child who couldn't formulate words to fit the emotions, but grief was the burden she carried and art was her wheelbarrow.

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“Why is your art dark and macabre?”

This is the question people ask most when viewing my work. When they meet me in person, they are surprised to find me happy and stable.

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Recently I went to visit Audrée H. St-Amour, an artist who works with metal to create jewelry and pieces of art. Originally from Montreal, Audrée has lived in Fredericton for nearly 10 years and works part-time at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery as a program coordinator and an art teacher. The rest of her time is divided between her creative practice and her two children, Enzo and Noée. Audrée welcomed me into her home with a warm smile and brought me upstairs where her studio was set up. There were white walls, machines in the corners, a workbench by the window with all the hand tools, and a big white table in the middle, covered in various art pieces at different stages of completion. Like every studio, this one offers an image of the artist who inhabits it: a visual representation of the artist’s imagination.

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