I live in the West Kootenay area of British Columbia, Canada, surrounded by the untamed beauty of vast stretches of wilderness. No surprise then, that nature informs most of my work.
My landscape linocuts are interpretations of remote or little-known areas within my immediate surroundings or, of more distant places which have resonated with me deeply. A year-long road trip along the back roads of Canada and the USA, while living in a small truck camper from 2016-2017, culminated in my now complete Heron Road series of 35 reduction prints.
My aim, as an artist, is to invite the viewer into the images I create and to share in the emotion I experienced in the places I depict. Colour plays a significant role in most of my linocuts and I use colour intuitively. I believe individual colours, much like musical notes, can work together to create a uniquely harmonious composition.
I hold a BFA in Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia and have been a printmaker since 2007.
I see my work as an exploration of painterly printmaking and particularly love the challenge of making reduction prints. Referred to as ‘suicide prints’ by Picasso, this is a method of printing where all the individual colour layers of the image are printed from a single matrix, carved away bit by bit, until almost nothing is left of it.
I’m continuously curious to discover how far I can push this traditionally graphic medium to produce images with a subtler, dreamlike quality.
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I'm a member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, and have exhibited at galleries in Vancouver, BC and in my immediate area. My work is in private collections, both in North America, and Europe.
