About me.

I work in different media for some time, and have fallen into acrylics on paper and canvas, and into procreate. My background in television directing and producing helped me develop a creative bent and an eye for framing. My development as an artist — thanks to NSCAD — has allowed me to see the importance of light and colour in my work — and to stop drawing and start shading. Working in digital spaces help me to see and create a new colour palette of pinks, oranges, and mauves. The colours I use make me happy.

I’ve always lived near water — Lake Superior, Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River, and the Atlantic Ocean. Even with the expanses of these bodies of water, I like to look at the small things - urchins, shells, glass, hermit crabs, and stones. It’s looking up while looking down. My art may be described in the same way — looking at the small things while keeping the expanse in view.

Inspirations for my work include Cy Twombly, Emily Filler, Mark Rothko, Katie Benn, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Bob Williams, among others.

“Hotson abstracts these forms and imbues them with hectic, vivid light and colour, simultaneously modern and nostalgic. The work asks us to consider what we notice, asserting the energy of the unnoticed, the radiance of the ordinary.”