“Over the years I have spent a lot of time walking and looking for places I could go throughout the city to gain a quiet moment. When I went to places like the “Dundurn Kitchen garden”, I felt as though I had been transported out of the city. Many of the community gardens also became places of solitude and peace. But they are also a place of birth and atrophy. I went during different times of day and in different seasons and was struck by the constant change. These paintings express how I saw those "Kitchen gardens" and the oasis they became for me.”