In line with my passion for events like Halloween and Day of the Dead, and taking inspiration from my artistic role models, Tim Burton, Edward Gorey, & Charlie Chaplin, I like to play with humour and pathos. In my earliest sketchbooks, I endeavoured to see the light side of dark subjects, focusing on the humour of seemingly negative situations.
My empathetic outlook often seeps into my art and feeds my fascination for the odd, obscure, and different. My early drawings were a Boy with a Telescope Stuck in His Eye, a butler named Mr. Lester who mirrored all my travels around the world, and skeletons by the bunch.
Today, my pieces convey contemporary messages on human interaction, through the use of imagery I relate to. My love for old clothing, antique objects, and illustration styles are portrayed in my pieces; not only to provide visual wonderment, but to serve as higher symbols for how we, as people, experience all types of interaction.
I believe art—in sending a message—should entertain and intrigue people visually. The themes should be relatable, yet delivered in a new perspective. Familiarity in a strange context.
My style has remained recognizable throughout my career, yet it still allows room for me to grow in areas of detail & colour I have not-yet-explored. My 1st art show was at the age of 9, held at The Whip Restaurant Gallery in Vancouver, and I am thankful to have held multiple sold-out exhibitions since.
When I’m not drawing or painting, I like to dance to jazzy tunes, collaborate with friends on short films, or go treasure-hunting at antique shops/flea markets.
Exhibitions
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (July 13th to 31st, 2021)
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (September 2nd to 14th, 2014)
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (July 17th to 29th, 2012)
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (June 28th to 10th, 2011)
Black Star Studios - Invermere, BC (August 4th to 18th, 2010)
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (July 21st to August 2nd, 2009)
Pynelogs Cultural Centre - Invermere, BC (July 8th to 20th, 2008)
The Whip Restaurant Gallery, “Artist of the Month” - Vancouver, BC (September 2007)
Galleries
Permanent Artist at Black Star Studios - Invermere, BC (2009 to Present)
Press
ARTiculate Magazine - Fall/Winter Issue (2014-2015)
Commissions + Collaborations
Album Art, for Blackberry Wood’s “A Wild Sleigh Ride” - (2020)
Logo Design, for Café Allium (Invermere, BC) - (2020)
Logo Design, for Vancouver’s “Parade of Lost Souls” Festival - (2019)
Book Illustration, for “The Attenekwah”, a Cautionary Fable - (2018)