This artwork is probably my most experimental piece to date. It is loosely related to the sky, the earth, and everything in between. Flight Instructions - the top panel, has hammered inscriptions in the metal. These are aspirational rules for living life. The bottom panel - Nobility - displays bark from a tree. This symbolizes our feet firmly planted in the real - and on the ground. The middle panel - Life And Death Are A Lot Of Work - became symbolic of birth and death and everything in between. The hot colour represents blood and fire. An EKG heartbeat. A warning sign. A symbol of the joyful work of living a life. Not - I chose this particular title because it purposely provides a sense of levity. And living and laughing is important.

Yes, some things can fall through the cracks, but more importantly, cracks let the light and truth shine through. This painting shows off a rainbow riot of bright ragged colour being partially exposed through breaks in the off white surface. Upon closer inspection, the painting invites you to examine multiple repainting, the patina of wear, and incised marks. In the quieter moments, the painting has a subtle sculptural quality that is not evident during daylight conditions. These scribed marks expose themselves when shown off through incidental side lighting.

Rapscallion - a rascal! This painting suggests layers of obfuscation - and then partially revealed discovery. A scrolling floral pattern is quietly discovered throughout the surface. - subtly revealed through incidental lighting.

Inspired by the forgotten classroom walls and blackboards… and the desire to create ‘a big blue painting’. The writing is partially student graffiti and over remnants of teacher’s daily instruction. In the end the artwork became a personal piece with observations and revelations. In fine detail there is a quiet confessions scribed into the surface.

Imagine a circus. Laughter all around. A kaleidocope of colours. The texture of this painting fills a whole wall. The artwork was created in my own form of synesthesia - I express music through the cadence, spacing, and timing of light and dark colours, shapes and lines.

A wall of texture as if from an ancient cantina.

This piece was built on promises. Everything was once shiny and new and full of expectations. Now, used, old and beaten up. Repaired. Obscured. And then lost. Were the promises true?

One child in every class stands out for one reason or another. Sometimes the whiz kid will rise to the occasion and shine through and champion thinking and thought. Or sometimes they will falter and fail. A tribute to trying.

A fun piece where brightly coloured circus-like elements of invention and frivolity seemingly flit around the surface.

Bold and in your face - but restrained and hidden with something covered over, eradicated and partially seen.

A ‘stepping stone’ piece that came out of a year of experimentation.

If walls could talk. “Make Me Proud”. Possibly the last words of encouragement the wall communicated to its students as it sent them out into the world.

The painting expresses the cadence of music through the spacing - the timing - of colour and lines

In a home renovation when you remove a wall, a trim board or a shelf - old colours are revealed speaking of past histories. The layers of colours describes the occupants. This painting is both a measurement of time and a time capsule.

The painting expresses the cadence of musical scales through the spacing - the timing - of colour and lines. An ancient feeling is evident through the patina of layers and textural markings throughout the surface. Every ‘bar’ of colour represents a corresponding sound. The complicated ‘noisy’ areas are offset by the subtle marks ‘quiet’ areas. Sharp colours and contrasting fine lines evoke quick plucks of sound.

A message of hope, dreams and perseverance. Any previous stage of human history would view today’s technology as magic. Through science and technology we build on the success of others. In our ancestor’s concept - we are living their future with magic.

Differences. On the one side - there is light and bright with a flourish scrolling over the panel. The other side is quiet, subtle and mysterious with elements floating across the panel. Close observation will reveal intimate marks and details within the dusty green and aubergine areas.

Inspired by a parkade post in old Quebec City. Signage has come and gone. The overwriting. The obliterating of communication. The mindless utilitarian obfuscation. The past is history. The future is for deciphering.

In reference to the school room where the students would become educated. The painting suggests a school room blackboard and elements of writing on the board. It also suggests schoolroom antics of drawing on the chalkboard and being erased.

Note: ”Send in the Clowns” is a song written by Stephen Sondheim for the 1973 musical A Little Night Music. It had a nicer ring than ’send in the fools’.

The cadence of music is visually represented through the multiple staged bands of colour and line that orchestrate across the surface. An ancient feeling is evident through the patina of textural markings throughout the layered surface.

The triptych displays a wall of textures. The fragments suggest the wear and tear of life juxtaposed with the ability to last and persevere. The translucent depths of layers of the encaustic medium bury past iterations of information. Signs of distress, possible repair and irreverant overpainting relay a timeline of use.

This piece fills the space like a chunk of wall.

What advice and philosophy was shared in the presence of the wall?

If the walls were a recording device - it would have witnessed the conversations, hopes, desires and lives that came and went.

The colours, patina and distressed elements suggest a ‘lost meaning’ within the artwork. A hidden structural pattern is revealed through an excavation of the encaustic surface suggesting a code or ancient artifacts from the past.

Perhaps it looks like old wallpaper, but upon closer observation this piece is very abacus-like in it’s feeling of scorekeeping and tallying. It is a little bit like life with layers of information, science and calculations. It has a discovered past with an obscuring of present facts.

This panel I was working with the idea of creating the feeling of typography without establishing actual words. The elements in this piece are reminiscent of torn ragged wallpaper and the exposed plaster wall revealed beneath.

In this panel I wished to create a subtle circus or carnival feel with the harlequin pattern shapes. The pattern is disrupted and one’s eye travels around the painting.

The loss of science and technology are represented by obscured wireframe symbols. Lettering and typography give a partial clue of some type of lost communication. Throughout history, there has been an ongoing loss of information and knowledge. Using more modern day symbols I want to suggest that obfuscation of information is still happening.

In this panel I was experimenting with a scroll-like floral pattern, which has intrigued me lately. I establish a given pattern - and then disrupt it throughout by using different values within the pattern. Subtle colour shifts exist within the dark value colours.

Lately, I have been intrigued with a scroll-like floral pattern. The pattern is real yet abstract. I establish a pattern and then disrupt it through different exposed values within the pattern. In other floral-scroll-like-patterns I have used a dark value background. In this one I used a medium-dark value orange. To make the composition work, I had to organize the dark values/ light values within different parts of the pattern to bring the viewer’s eye around.

I have been using Zeppelin-like shapes in my artwork. The wireframe suggests science and planning. Scientific progress and development is often opposed barriers of the naysayers. Communication and scientific advancements are hard fought for. In this instance the symbol of science is pushing through a monumental opposition.

Scars of use and neglect are additions to a distressed and chipped blue wall. At first glance it appears vandalized. Further investigation reveals a wireframe zeppelin shape incised into the surface. Mystery is revealed in the background where there is subtle, hidden and partially obscured typographical communication.

I have been using zeppelin shapes suggesting science and technology. This piece has a feeling of a worn and ragged carnival tent or festival wall. It is all onne big messy circus.

The retro wire-frame zeppelin shapes suggest science and technology. The artwork balances between a festive carefree feeling - and the loss of communication amid the world circus.