Statement
I am a Canadian artist working in New York City since 1995. I like to express myself in the different mediums of acrylic paint, ink and pencil. These different bodies of work are contiguous with one another and encompass my main themes in current paintings and drawings. The subjects of architecture, construction, demolition and urban textures were born out of the enormous growth and development in Toronto I saw growing up. This visual background has formed my concept of abstraction as an activity of continual process. I continue to view painting as a construction site of ideas, like a city itself. My process begins from a simple sketch, photo, or general idea that I often garner from books that I read. These become fully worked through on the canvas or paper. Many of my recent works are parts of various ongoing series. I work in this manner to allow myself an open space to stretch out ideas without a definitive stopping point. In recent years, interests such as built forms in the insect world and the mutable nature of deteriorating structures focus my works on the color, texture, and line of both urban and natural environments. My painting is also fueled by my love of contemporary and historic art, graffiti and the live jazz music that I have access to here in New York City. These drive my vision to always develop and change.
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