drawing • painting • sculpture • photography • digital
This process started off with an oil painting of 2 flowers that I did on a hanging canvas, unstretched. I then photographed, digitized, and transferred the image to Procreate on my iPad. I reworked this over and over and made many versions, some of which are shown here. In the “Inverted Rose/Hibiscus” series I am … Read more
Version 1 This contorted, twisted structure represents the reconstruction of fractured memory fragments. Just as I grasp for and get hold of an image seeing it more clearly in my mind, I lose one I already had. For me, the beauty of
Chai on Life Eighteen. Good luck number where I came from. Chai—not like the tea—but like a hard “H”. Means Life. And it seems like a lifetime ago since I was a full-time artist. 18 years ago, I had a car accident—limo driver full of rowdy teenagers burned a red light and caught my tail end … Read more
This idea of seeing what we think we see instead of actually seeing these things as they truly are was something that was brought to my attention when I was quite young studying to be an artist. Take a look at my blog on this series. to learn more about Inversion. Here I have shown many images that … Read more
In this Phase II: Inversion: Spirit Bear Paintings, I explore the Spirit Bear and the Great Bear Rainforest. Still looking at our footprint on the environment and sometimes the ever-changing and developing geopolitical landscape we have in Canada, Phase II focuses on the Spirit Bear and how I, a white 2nd generation Canadian and an … Read more
This idea of seeing what we think we see instead of actually seeing these things as they truly are was something that was brought to my attention when I was quite young studying to be an artist. Take a look at my blog on this series. to learn more about Inversion. Here I have shown many images that … Read more
That doesn’t make it bad… that makes it thought provoking, Which, in my mind, is always a good thing! Likening 4 critical characteristics of great art to apocalyptic doom and gloom of the 4 horsemen might be a bit much, but whether you look at the New Testament or the Old, leaving these characteristics out … Read more
After a spark-filled first date, sometimes the spark is still strong prompting thoughts of an actual relationship. This is where we come back to an artwork and consider making a purchase… but the gnawing thoughts of value and “it should be a good investment” keep slipping through…Naturally, we want to make sure we are committing … Read more
Dating. For some that’s a very scary idea. For others, they love the thrill. Dating has a lot of similarities with acquiring art, whether you want to hook up or are ready for a long-term relationship. In the way that you would ask a friend their opinion on your newest love interest, I am … Read more
Inversion is a concept that has been explored in psychology and science, math, and music, however, as far as I can tell, it’s not a concept that has been explored much at all in art, if ever. It is a concept that I have explored for some time but not exactly like this until recently. In the past I have looked at ways in which we are seen by others and see ourselves and how those ways of seeing are not true, instead they are mirrored images of what we think we see or of ourselves seeing what we need to see.
This is a series I started exploring because of what happened this past spring on our morning walk. As we crossed over the bridge at Maxwell Park behind the Prosserman JCC, we noticed the ravine, which is part of the whole Don River system in the GTA, was full of white foam—as tho someone had … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the surface many of our deep-seated fears around the “Other”. In this time we have found many of us cocooning and longing for closeness and connectedness in a safe and secure space, while we have looked outward at other communities, nations, peoples—even our neighbours. Are they respecting restrictions? Are … Read more
I became fascinated with Octopuses after watching a documentary last year about a man who developed the most fantastic friendship with an Octopus. I was amazed by how intelligent and sentient they are. It became obvious that they experience attachment, fear, and other emotions, just as humans do—Probably just as most of the animal world … Read more
Like so many others in the artworld, I have become fascinated with the concept and traceability of NFTs. I have also been impressed by the security provided to artists by this new form of dissemination of our work. However, I have been concerned about the carbon footprint created by the production of these tokens and … Read more
