Biography

After growing up in Kamloops, like most of my friends I bolted to Vancouver. I later returned to Kamloops to clean out my subconscious closet. In 1990 I achieved a Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) Diploma through UCC.  During the program I constructed a scale model of the then Riverside Coliseum. This reignited the flame under my creative backside. After graduation, my position at Mader & Assoc. included drafting and model making and desktop publishing. I am now the graphic designer for Fiscal Realities Economists in Kamloops. My employer encouraged me to grow creatively by completing various courses at UCC/TRU. Eventually I enrolled part time in the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program, and am currently in drawing. But clay is my favored medium. Family, career, and school are forging peace between the mechanic and the artist.

Artist's Statement

After disassembling my Dad’s watch and my Mom’s brooches, my parents suggested the book “The Way Things Work,” and locked their finer things away. As that technically-minded child, I continue to deconstruct my scientific and natural environment and question my intrinsic function. Questions arise from everywhere: publications, broadcasts, conversations, or dreams. It is the quest for answers that inspires my art. Through clay, and with deliberate control, patience and a devotion to detail, I explore the How and Why. I’m compelled to master the medium, to challenge myself in the process, and to resolve any questions through experimentation. This linear reasoning infuses a narrative quality; like a book perhaps, about how things work…