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I grew up in rural Canada. As a child I often found myself captivated by my surroundings, and drawing became my way of self expression. Upon graduating from high school, I went on to pursue a higher education in the fine arts. Oil painting, pencil, sculpture and print making were my mediums of choice. I spent my college and university days contemplating the atrocities of human nature, and centering on a more realistic visual interpretation of it. After spending a few years away from doing my own work, I became tired of focusing on the dregs of society. I began to draw for myself again in 2000, looking more at the beauty that surrounds us rather then the sorrow. I enjoy drawing and painting pretty much anything and everything... yet the atrocities that occur still have a profound and lasting effect on me. It all comes back for me to the idea that: Everything around us holds both a sense of beauty as well as sorrow...How can one reconcile one with the other? The answer for me was to take a more Contemporary view of my ideas. To create an image that captures the heart and essence of my subject; hopefully invoking an emotional response without being overly graphic. |
