In 2008 I completed my Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Emily Carr University of Arts and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia.  My passion for the great outdoors of the Canadian West Coast inspires me to create landscape paintings.  I am interested in the ability of landscape paintings to suggest places that feel familiar. 

My paintings are explorations of the open spaces found in nature and evolve through a process of experimentation within the acrylic paint medium.  The landscapes are reworked aesthetically by layering many translucent coats of paint with small shifts in color.  This creates depth and constructs an abstracted space which is evolved like the topography of the earth itself.  I am also fascinated in capturing fleeting impressions of the atmosphere.  The result of my efforts is a landscape that plays with the notion of what is real and unreal.  The mysterious panoramas are often sparse and somewhat abstracted, with fragmented areas of detail that engages the viewer at an emotional level.  The resulting painting mixes the realms of sensation and interpretation.  The absence of a specific narrative leaves the viewer in a boundless meditative space, stimulating them to investigate what it is they are seeing through a process of discovery and recollection. 

I would like my paintings to help people appreciate that man cannot exist without the natural environment which ultimately sustains us all.