2021–2023
Place holder text: Abstraction, spontaneity, and play have been central to my painting practice. Influenced by the cartoons and comic books of my youth, as well as Cubism and Pop Art, I developed a visual language of bold colour, expressive mark-making, fragmentation, and distortion. Rather than pursuing conventional likeness, I became interested in using the figure as a way to explore identity, perception, emotion, and the space between people. Working primarily from life, I developed a process of automatic, abstract portraiture in which intuition and observation could coexist.
For several years, I painted people I encountered within Vancouver’s queer community. Each painting emerged from the encounter between myself and the sitter, translating something of that moment through colour, gesture, distortion, and fragmentation. The work became an exploration of looking and being seen—the queer gaze—and of how our perceptions of one another shape our understanding of identity and relationship. Over time, this outward-looking practice turned inward, as I began painting from my own image. Self-portraiture shifted the encounter toward questions of memory, vulnerability, self-perception, and the fluctuating nature of identity.
The approximately 100 works presented here represent a selection of this body of work, all hand-painted and hand-inked on paper. Developed over many years, the series has taken these approaches as far as I feel they can go. With exhibitions planned for spring 2027, this archive marks a closing point and a transition toward new approaches to painting.
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Oil & Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 100 lb. Drawing Paper
Dimensions: 14 × 17 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: 14 × 18 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Back to Relational/Reflexive
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Back to Relational/Reflexive
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Back to Relational/Reflexive
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Oil Pastel & Oil Paint on 98 lb. Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper
Dimensions: 9 × 12 in.
Created: Fall 2021
This abstract (double) portrait was created in collaboration with a visitor to my studio in fall 2021. Following a standardized process based on my Collaborative Drawing Experiment, we first created the underdrawing together using Sennelier oil pastels. I then completed the work alone, after the other participant had left, using oil paint and mediums.
The other/self series explores the relational aspects of co-authorship while intimately examining attachment, boundaries, and the (queer) gaze.
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Winter 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 22 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Winter 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 100 lb. Drawing Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Summer 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2022
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Original SOLD / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 100 lb. Drawing Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2021
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 100 lb. Drawing Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 11 × 14 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Fall 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 16 × 20 in.
Created: Spring 2023
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Commission / Prints Available
Medium: Acrylic & Ink on 140 lb. Cold-Pressed Watercolour Paper
Dimensions: 18 × 24 in.
Created: Fall 2021
Original SOLD / Commission / Prints Available