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About

As a free-range kid, my feet were either in the ocean or making paths through the forests. It was only natural, when my father bought me a Cosina CT-1 35 mm SLR and some used black and white darkroom equipment, that my love of the outdoors and photography converged. The bathroom became our makeshift darkroom: the enlarger balanced on the toilet, the bathtub our sink line. Over the next fifteen years, I developed my photographic practice through self-education and part-time institutional training.


Nature

Exhibitions

This Is Me, group show

Arbor Gallery, Vankleek Hill, Ontario

Jan 15 - Feb 22, 2026


I have a platinum/palladium print. "Paper Birch," in Arbor Gallery's latest group show This is Me: "a unique collective exhibition exploring identity, creativity, and personal expression. Earlier this fall, we invited artists from our community to submit a work that reflects who they are — not necessarily a traditional self-portrait, but a piece that reveals their essence, their vision, or their inner world." For more info go to https://arborgallery.org/2024/06/14/fredapembertonsmithroom/ 

Cassburn Road Farm Before and After a Storm

July 31 - August 24, 2025 Group exhibit Art on the Land at Arbor Gallery, Vankleek Hill, Ontario

Cassburn Road Farm Before and After a Storm is a series captured over a period of five years, beginning in 2021. It documents the before and after effects and affects of the 2022 destructive storm that left a path of devastation to the natural and human landscapes. This glade of woods, which stands amidst farmed fields in rural southeast Ontario, has been one of those places that have captured my wonderment. Prior to the storm and after, it remains ever-changing, vulnerable yet resilient. The series is printed in gum bichromate and in tri-colour gum bichromate over cyanotype.

Peony in the Hand

Apex Group Show, SPAO: Photographic Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario

Mar/Apr 2025

Peony in the Hand is part of my series Flora, an ongoing fascination with wild and domesticated flowers, from backyards and ditches  to prairie meadows, from botanical gardens and arboretums to arboreal forests and alpine meadows. The prints in this series are tri-colour gum and gum bichromate over cyanotype.