I was born in Chilliwack, BC and grew up in Kelowna, BC with my mom and sister until High School. I then attended and completed High School while living with my dad in Quesnel, BC. Although I've always tended towards the arts, the High School I attended had a comprehensive art, graphics and photography program.

I attended my first two years of College at Okanagan College in Kelowna; studying fine arts with the hopes of becoming a Graphic Designer. While there, I also took part in painting and printmaking courses, which they offered, and found they came naturally to me. I completed with a 2-year diploma in Fine Arts in Graphic Design while at the same time picking up extra courses in Painting.

With my sense for graphics well on the way and my painting starting to evolve, I decided to apply at The Emily Carr College of Art and Design (E.C.C.A.D.) in Vancouver, BC. I applied for both graphics and fine arts separately and was accepted for both. I needed to choose one and knowing my aptitude for graphics, I choose the more challenging option, Fine Arts.

I attended E.C.C.A.D. for three years (skipping the foundation year) and plunged myself into my painting and printmaking studies. The three years went by fast as every minute of my days were spent in my studio, bookstores, and movie theaters. I would work desperately for days on end and then wind down by taking in up to four movies in one day.

Upon completing the 4-year diploma program at E.C.C.A.D., I got a summer job and saved enough money to go to Mexico for a few months and take in the people and sights. It was the experience of my life!

Coming home I found myself broke and in need of a job. I found work in a department store and, met up with a friend from high school named Alvina, whom I have since married.

After getting married and work in graphic design being hard to come by due to the implementation of the computer, I decided to go back to school again. This time I went to Burnaby College for a diploma in computer systems and desktop publishing.

Wanting to raise a family, we moved from Vancouver to the slower-paced town of Kelowna where I have found part-time work in Graphics and Web-page development.

We now have a beautiful daughter named Ocean-Brae, a son named Luke and my wife works as a Medical Transcriptionist both at the local Cancer Center and as a self-contractor from home.

I currently work in a bookstore while I explore my Creative Arts and self-contract as a Graphics and Web Designer.

With this web site I am hoping to market my talents, network and introduce myself to other artists, publishers, ad agencies or anyone who may require my services. Please, feel free to view my art and send me your comments. I am open to all types of constructive criticism and admiration. I love to talk, so email me any time.

My paintings seem to deal mainly with realist figures. I am interested in the person behind the façade, whether I paint their façade or their inner thoughts, I am always aware of both. I like to combine the perfect interpretations of commercial graphic photography with a twisted reality or mock emotion. My interests dwell in the Baroque depictions by Caravaggio; the feeling of the thespian ever present, and of David; the perfect exactness of graphic tightness.

Political Correctness is a personal pet peeve of mine. I believe an artist should be free to express him or her self in any way they feel correctly interprets their feelings. What distresses, offends or corrupts one person may surprise, delight or intrigue another. I believe an artist has the right to create disturbing or hateful paintings if it is truly their belief.

Being in the public view with art can be, and often is, reason for personal panic from an artist. The personal criticism or issues relating to a person's art starts immediately. Most often, the viewer cannot separate real life from the painted surface. An artist painting purely for or their own desire to communicate within themselves is often bombarded by criticism as to the rightness of their statement.

It seems it is not socially acceptable within the art community to portray racism, sexual orientation conflicts, machoism, violence or a cluttered list of other issues which may, and usually does, offend one party or another. For me, it is not these that I am concerned with. For me it is the issue of censorship which more and more artists are invariably taking part in. They label it as "artist responsibility" and enforce it with the toils of professionalism and artistic peer pressure.

Although my paintings seem to deal mainly with realistic figures, my prints deal with a realism of a different sort. They hold realism on a social commentary. Society as I see it around me. I like to step outside of humanity and partake purely as an observer. From the sidelines, I try to interpret the corrupt ways of mankind, sometimes through sarcasm, other time through blatancy. I try to rebel against and expose all the things I have been taught but don't quite believe in, things such as corruption in politics, advertising, and the hypocrisy of hierarchies.

My feelings of the evils of our societies are strong. I am sometimes touched by the strength and sadness of emotions. In these cases, I enjoy the retelling of hurt emotion and bring light to the images around me, reinterpreting them in my own mediums.