Biography
My aim is to investigate the capacity of pictorial form to intensify aspects of our daily visual experiences: the change in mood between familiar and unfamiliar spaces, glances and lines of sight between people, and details that potentially slip into the periphery of vision unnoticed. These characteristics provide fuel for creating unusual viewpoints, which reveal the value of daily life as a topic for exploration in drawing.
The working process I employ permits an intuitive growth of composition and the chance for images to progressively suggest a narrative. As I develop compositions directly on the page relationships between human figures and their environments emerge which determine narrative content, provoking the viewer to associate images with his or her personal experience and memories.
Some of my influences are Robert Birmelin, Edward Hopper, and Edgar Degas and the graphic novel artists Leinel Yu and Travis Charest.
