Education & Training

1996 - 99
Alberta College of Art & Design
- graduated with Bachelor Fine Arts Degree
- Major Visual Communications

1992 - 94
Red Deer College
- Bachelor Fine Arts

 

Thanks

Thanks Mom, Dad & Granny, Gramps for tha support since
time, not to to mention the genetic goods guiding my SOUL.
APES Skates for many years of chaos esp. D' SPITZ bros.
(Ian, Pat, Trev, Stephan, Damian,Tony, Darren, Zed & Apes)
Dena for tha TLC and acorns in the cupboards. Mike, Doug,
J, Gary and all the guys kickin it at the dojo - you bad, you bad
Yellowknife Dominion, you make Hell a popsicle stand.

Blaine Wasylkiw @ Darkseid Designs for knowin yer stuff.
Space Boy & The Space Family @ Space Relations

The Alberta College of Art & Design, esp. Dennis Budgen,
Dave Whamond, Douglas Fraser, Caroline Fisher, Rick
Sealock. Chuck, Elaine, Eugene, Gil, Ken, Larry, Rik, Ron,
Tim & Jolt Cola. Red Deer College Fine Arts Department.
Mrs. Lozeron & Kate Braitenbach for helping along tha way.
Special thanks to the McKinnons. You have made me feel
at home for a lifetime providing memories and inspiration.

 

 

 

i Like Bananas !

(monkey PLUCKS banana)

I Like Bananas

I was born in Innisfail, Alberta Canada and raised ten
minutes away in a town called Red Deer. I was five,
red deer were running rampant through out the city
causing the citizens to go mad. I escaped the Cervidae
terror by scribbling images of Spiderman, Batman and
Superman within "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas".

** I wanted superheroes to come and save the day !! **

I guess what I really wanted ... was to scribble scribble.
Aside from my art, I am enthused in martial arts training,
playing in the white winter and frolics through the wilder-
ness. Comics and Leonardo da Vinci are my greatest art
influences- both inherit the ability to artistically commun-
icate inspiring, technical, intelligent and abstract ideas
through their work.

In my work, I try to express ideas through dramatic humour.
Baroque period art involved all levels of society, sharing
emotional experiences through themes expressing union
between martyr or worshiper (Catholic or Protestant alike),
with the Divine...invoking hope. Baroque artists maximized
this effect through theatrical visuals within their settings,
subjects, space and lighting, catering to the needs of the
people instead of their institutions. In the wake of today's
social events, I believe there is hope and will try to provide
what the Baroque artists did for their era within my work.