I am a Leslieville-based visual artist and graphic designer who recently retired from Toronto’s television and film industry. I was formally schooled in the visual arts at what was then known as the Ontario College of Art, followed by a fine arts curriculum at the University of Guelph. Although committed to the pursuits of life drawing, photography and music, I inevitably find myself returning to my first love: painting. I have participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1980, and I’m happy to be preparing for a new exhibit at GAS in the fall of 2027, my sixth solo show there.

 

My most persistent painterly influences are the Abstract Expressionists and the Group of Seven. Artists like Paterson Ewen, Harold Town and Gerhard Richter also inspire. Ultimately it's the stuff of paint itself which informs and direct my energy: materials and their surfaces, the push and pull of illusory space, the meat and texture of paint, the nature of light and the surprisingly seductive power of suggestion - both directly primal and unpredictably lateral.

 

In a more modern sense, I remain intrigued by the ubiquity and fluid interconnectedness of digital media - particularly those strange places where painting, photography, typography and music collide and ingeniously cross-pollinate.