Artist's Bio, Paintings, Installations, etc.

 

Presently living in Fredericton, I have at various times lived in Miramichi, Edmundston, Saint John, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver and a lot of places in between. Have travelled a bit too. At various times in these various places, I have been a student, painter, installation artist, columnist, cartoonist, administrator, dreamer, bureaucrat, professional designer and CEO of a major cultural institution. Although influenced early on by the colours and textures of small town side streets and rural back roads of New Brunswick, it was while studying landscape architecture in Toronto that the heavy urban landscape became a major influence in the installation art that I made and exhibited there. After returning to New Brunswick, I began doing watercolours and created the DRUMlins cartoon strip. The strip ran for over 16 years in the Miramichi Leader, and, for the last decade or so, has and continues to be published on social media platforms. Over the years, my DRUMlin drawings developed into a number of oil & acrylic paintings resulting in various exhibitions. The lowly steel drum containers, my favorite characters, emphasize that somehow the mundane is relevant, the simple wise and the rusty always beautiful. Beyond the DRUMlins drawings, my stuff continues to be the result of a fascination with materials, textures, composition and the effects of time. I like to draw, paint and arrange things in a way that illustrates the relationships we have with the things we use and discard.

  

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