Welcome!
Hello fellow artists and art lovers. Welcome to my online studio gallery.Every day you can find me crawling around my paint splattered floor, or perched on the edge of a stool at my glue encrusted workbench, with my orbital sander on full speed, or at my easel, contemplating the mysteries of life through painting and creating. I believe that it’s not so much that I make art as art makes me.
I feel that art is the way I navigate life. It is the language I am most conversant in. I also write about art and life and you might enjoy subscribing to my newsletter which I sent out infrequently to share thoughts about same and also information about exhibitions and art events in Vancouver.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with abstract painting, narrative and conceptual installations and live performance. I am wildly experimental and love to push boundaries and try new things, but always but still seeking to create meaningful expressive works that though different sometimes in style and content, explore the themes of love, loss, and other of life’s many mysteries.
In all my paintings I seek a world that exists somewhere between memory and dream. I want to capture the mysterious and intangible qualities of nature and human experience.
I believe that Art is a unique language that speaks to the soul
. Robert Motherwell famously said that art is an experience, not an object, and I couldn’t agree more.
As an artist, I strive to create paintings deeply rooted in the present moment. My experience of creating the painting is the subject of the painting or at least part of it. I strive to connect with my viewers on an experiential level and engage them in a beautiful conversation between two souls
My work has been called soulful, expressive, inspiring and uplifting. I hope you will feel the same.
View my collections below.
Collections
Here are collections showing examples of my different styles.
Original art can create a focal point for your room and enliven the space.
Have look and get in touch if you see something you like.
Lyrical Abstracts
Sometimes the work is purely gestural, intuitive and expressionistic. It focuses thematically on movement and emotions through colour, design, pattern, texture and line. I challenge myself to play with different ways to make abstract art as part of my creative practice. This works appeals to collectors who like bold statements that create a focal point for a room.
Imagined Landscapes
When I paint in an abstract style I am responding to the moment and inquiring into the here and now. Feelings are stirred, memories evoked imagination comes out to play. In my landscapes it’s not so much that I am painting nature but more that I am painting my experience of it. Sometimes I am painting inner landscapes because often our inner lives are reflected in the art. Sometimes I seek to capture the simplicity and sometimes the complexity of life in a painting. These landscapes are both serene and energizing, and sometimes dark and desolate but always revealing a ray of light. The dark paintings I hope allow us to see through the darkness to the light in our lives.
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