10” x 10”,
mixed media & assemblage
A physical compilation of my proffesional & personal experience working at Tourism Medicine Hat’s visitor centre as a counsellor & graphic designer— Inside the visitor centre, it shines just as bright as it does outside on a hot & sunny August day. Meeting new people from accross the world and guiding them through our local city was so rewarding! Anyway, don’t forget to book a ride on the sunshine trolley!
10” x 10”,
illustration painting.
A highly technical & illustrative painting about a vintage object. In this case, it was the mid to late 2000s.
I love this european wonder. Truely a wonderful marvel at the precipice of the sky and the sea.
11” x 14” (8” x 10”) , print.
The Amiens Cathedral is a sublime iteration of gothic architecture. One of kind as being one of the most cohesive designs of its time. I was so inspired by this, I wanted create a quaint intaglio dry-point and print.
3X 10”x10”
Triptyc experimenting with abstraction and color through three distinct color schemes such as monochromatic, dyadic and analogous.
Quatre Saisons (2015)
folded, wide format, pen ink and watercolor.
10”x10”, drawing & print on masonite.
6”x12”, watercolor.
Narrative self-portrait when I was 14 years old.
12” x 8”, mixed media digital & hand-drawn illustration.
Two illusrations that are roughly similar but are significantly different. Spot the differences; there are 17 of them.
10” x 10” , mixed media painting. Implementing fine art typography to convey a surreal & rhetorical question: “be true don’t live a lie” concealing “am I living a lie”. It is a question we all pose to ourselves at different points in our lives, even on a collective scale. This painting appropriates “Cristina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth, a very self-introspective painting depending on your perspective.
16” x 24”,
illustration painting.
The famed art of the deal is highly polarizing.
23”x23”, painting.
This is an appropriation of several paintings by painters like Dorothy Knowles & Bernand Frize , remixed into my painting. I make an allusion to my charcoal self-portrait.
8.5”x10.5”, mixed media on paper
This is an artwork I made that exemplifies my appreciation for historical ingenuity and beauty. It demonstrates my attention to detail and my passionate approach to work.
8.5”x11” , pen & paper
I made this cathedral drawing when I was 13 years old. This drawing spearheaded my interest in gothic architecture and the classics.
24”x36”, charcoal on stonehenge.
20”x20”
odd format, mixed media
15”x24”, pencil crayon on dark paper.
I recall I did as an experiment with dark paper, making use of negative space to enhance the drawing.
2’ x 2’, painting.
Past is epitomous of my nostalgia towards my past. It represents a certain longing or romantic attraction to filaments of what our heart and minds weave together to give us comfort... or sadness. In relation to Present, Absent, this is almost about hindsight.
2’ x 2’, painting.
Absent is a liminal place where one reflects in between the past and present, and could arguably be about the future—a place that doesn’t exist. This self-portrait takes place in a representation of one of my childhood living rooms. It is very internalized, peacefully uncomfortable and in everpresent limbo. I am referenced as the Hanged Man, a metaphor about being lost in changing perpectives, stuck in an unwanted predicament without telling for how long.
2’ x 2’, painting.
Present is the externalized daily chaos conciously lived and processed. In effect the present is quite a blur wih so much taking place within every second without a moment to spare. Each event coalesces and splices together as disjointed and abstract sight and thought.
3’ x 4’, painting
Pluralism is sort of visual maximalism often featuring incongruent imagery, speaking to the theory of binary oppositions and intertextuality. This painting was one big expiriment of pluralism.
2’ x 2’ , painting.
Several figures exist existentially within and around a liminal swimming pool suspended in the sky.
36” x 24”, mixed media drawing.
24”x36”, mixed media watercolor on stonehenge.
On the edge of these dreary cliffs there is an eternal stillness to the overcast and ocean. Akin to the expression of equanimous listlessness, a veneer to the depths and mysteries that permeate the mind. I travelled to England up by Whitby and York during the months of December and this was the atmoshpere, however the oceans were not quite so still :)
24”x36”, pencil on stonehnge.
A massive drawing for the minutious scale of detail, the bottom image is the initially complete version. The other is the work in progress one, refurbishing the initial pencial stokes and designs with cleaner fine point marker pen. This drawing depicts a verisimilar fantastical european city at the turning point of its industrialization. Heavily inspired by Turgot’s 18th century city map of Paris.
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