Tag: Influences

  • Mother / Mother

    Mother / Mother

    Mother – Part 1 2016 was a quiet art year for me with lots going on in life. The first half of the year started out normally, working on different paintings and exploring new themes, but things changed in late spring. I found myself thinking a lot about motherhood, and what it meant as an…

  • Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

    Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah

    This summer I had the pleasure of creating a portrait of my friend Heather. The painting was commissioned by her mother-in-law, who has been a great friend and supporter of my art since my early days in London. We had been planning this painting for quite some time now, and ideas had been exchanged over…

  • Have we met before? You look familiar.

    Have we met before? You look familiar.

    Pretty boys have been around for a long time, and I’ll be the first to say that I’m not the only artist out there working on this subject. I would like to think that I’m doing something different and unique with the idea, but I’m also just one in a long succession of artists that…

  • Pretty Boys Can Only Say So Much

    Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who has been so supportive of my Indiegogo campaign. Thank you for the contributions, sharing the link and spreading the word. I’ve still got just over 30 days to go! So the idea for this series of drawings, pretty boys kill me, came to me while I was on…

  • Texting, texting, 1, 2, 3…

    I went to a couple of really great artist talks these past two weeks. One was by Damien Moppett, whose show I still have to see at The Rennie Collection, a space I fully encourage everyone to go check out in Vancouver. (You have to book an appointment to go see the exhibitions, but it’s…