“Forest for the Trees seemed to be an apt description for the first couple of months, trying to appreciate the bigger landscape while focusing on the minutiae. Walking back and forth, observing from a distance, and then getting caught up in the self-absorption of a small bleed of inky stains soaking into one another, embedding and colluding. I enjoy this notion of “forest for the trees”, thinking how both aspects could be epic. Details can be their own universe, but not ignoring the bigger picture.”

— Except from the Artist Statement

“The cruelty of destroying one perfect mark for the satisfaction of new possibilities seems to be just a reflection of life and seasons passings.”

— Excerpt from the Artist Statement

“Scattered around the one corner of the studio are the cut outs in purgatory, either waiting to earn through total random coincidence the perfect match in their next incarnation -a meeting of line, color or mood. This is the part of the studio of stars aligning. In another opposite corner, lay the myriads of wood block prints, etchings, oil bar drawings, soft pastel drawings and all other misty wet Vancouver ideas. In the eye of the storm are the long stories I keep telling myself will be interesting.”

— Except from the Artist Statement