Awards & Grants

Art Statement

The guiding principle of my art is the need to work from life. My main practices are painting and drawing and my primary subject is portraiture. I thrive in open life drawing sessions and have worked with over 25 models in private portrait sessions. My work is a return to the modern expressionist tradition and speaks directly to the art of Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Doig and Dorothy Knowles. I align myself with modern Canadian landscape artists like Dorothy Knowles because, like her, I am working from life, yet I am aware of and in conversation with the ideas born of abstract expressionism.