About me

Hello – and thanks for exploring this gallery. My art is inspired by deep experience of rural life and wild nature, and strongly rooted in British Columbia, Canada, where I live on the edge of wilderness. The work is broadly realist, but increasingly feels like a form of magic realism. A frothing creek enters a river by a strange stone circle. A winter bonfire may be a signal. A tree spirals energy upward. A chair burns on a frozen lake.  I’m playing with the phrase “ecstatic realism” as a way to describe these images, because that’s often how making them feels. All of the work begins in imagination, with ideas shaped by a lifetime of observing landscapes, forests, weather, wildlife, and battered kettles on campfires. Works have have found homes in Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe, which I deeply appreciate.