Image making has always been a very personal,intimate experience. By nature, the artist career is only possible through public exposure. I learnt to code my private message at an early age to preserve the intimacy of creating.

     A deep rooted interest of mine has been drawing in public spaces. I draw intricate, black, ball-point pen images on paper, from my imagination rather than life, still-life or landscape in my immediate environment. You can find me sketching away on Wreck Beach, the bus or subway, in a restaurant or art opening; anywhere my hands have free time. These drawings are the foundation to my artistic practice.
 

   By dealing with the most prominent issues in my own life, I hope to tap into a collective purpose and relate to a larger group. My work carries an autobiographical message combined with a message about humanity. A married, male living and working in Vancouver, Canada on the thin skin of life on a hot rock called Earth.

     What does it mean to be of nature but dependant on technology? What does it mean to be masculine in relation to the feminine? Does an image hold the power to affect intentional individual change? Can we achieve a sustainable balance with ourselves and our planet? My underlying concepts are reinforced through my intentional aesthetic considerations and choice of subject and medium.

      My most recent series of paintings and drawings focus on creatures of the sea. Aesthetically I combine mechanical and organic form. My goal is to find a visual balance of machine and organism. By varying the mechanical content, the final image could describe a realistic, utopian, or horrific existence. When the right balance is achieved I know that the image is complete.

      Successful works have achieved a balance of mechanical elements that is visually comforting and could possibly be a sustainable creature in real life. The machine does not dominate or sufficient the work, it is contained and empowers the plant or creature in a supernatural fashion. Intentional focus on the specifics of the medium has allowed a fine tuning. I painted the sea-creatures acrylic paint, sand and sea-water, in an attempt to add energy from the sea more directly to my work.