Hello and welcome.

About the exploration in my work:

I use images of nature to explore the depths of our inner world and spiritual world.

I'm exploring several ovelapping ideas:

• Representing forces like tides and gravity as enourmous powers that connect us to the cosmos.

• Representing the intimate space of breath as a connection between internal and external worlds.

• Representing air/breath as volume, something of substance.

• Representing spirituality through absence, silence and stillness.

The ability to stay focused on one's breath during meditation serves as an anchor to maintaining presence even as your mind thrashes about. As breath focus develops it eventually settles these waves and leads to feelings of expansiveness and a richer, more meaningful connection to the world around us. The breath itself has become part of my imagery, represented as hazy fogs of colours that settle the underlying scenes. I have found the the ocean in particular, to be a great source of attunement. It's rythms, vastness and varied states of stillness or turbulence reflect our inner worlds.

These images are created by applying acrylic paint directly onto my large format photographs to create a seamless image that transitions between abstraction and realism. This process reflects the connection between our emotions and how they affect our perception of reality. Using thin layers of acrylic to build up colours and enhancing parts of the image with impasto, there is an emotonal component added in that reflects my experiences of nature more accurately.

Over the past 20 years my work continues to be featured internationally in galleries, art fairs and magazines, and is part of private and public collections including Air Canada, the House of Armani, and the Canadian embassy in Iceland. I studied fine art at Medicine Hat College and went on to receive a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta in 1995. My studio is currently based in Toronto.