BIOGRAPHY
In addition to completing a BFA in Visual Art at Simon Fraser University and a MFA in Studio Art at the University of Victoria, I studied drawing, fresco painting and painting restoration in Italy, working in Firenze as an apprentice to a painting restorer. I have exhibited my art and photography locally and internationally, and have also worked as an art writer, writing catalogue essays on visual art, architecture, photography, film, and popular culture.
My teaching experience includes work as a University-College Instructor in the Visual Art Department at Malaspina University College (now Vancouver Island University) teaching courses in Photography, Drawing, Painting, and Art Theory. I was also a Faculty Instructor at the Vancouver Island School of Art, teaching a wide variety of courses and workshops, that included Drawing, Painting (Gouache, Watercolour and Egg Tempera), Renaissance Drawing and Painting Techniques (Fresco, Egg Tempera, Gilding, Silverpoint) and thematic courses on Artist Books, Creative Cartography, Urbanism, and on the intersections between Art, Science and Natural History. While completing my MFA in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria, I worked as a Teaching Assistant in Drawing, Painting and Art Theory courses. While working on a MA In the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria, I was a Teaching Assistant for several years for the Introduction to Art History and Introduction to Film Studies courses.
My portrait, documentary, event and concert photographs have been published in a variety of web and print publications, including local and national newspapers and magazines as well as international magazines and journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, Light Leaks, All About Jazz, Jazz Times and Early Music America on-line and print publications.
I was an Assistant Photographer for the 2010 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and have been the Official Photographer for the Early Music Vancouver Bach Summer Festival and annual concert series from 2011 to the present. I have also been the Official Photographer since 2012 for Vancouver's Music on Main, who produce a music festival in late autumn in addition to an annual concert series. I have also enjoyed working as a documentary and concert/performance photographer for the Vancouver Cantata Singers, Musica Intima, the Little Chamber Music Series, the Secret Lantern Society, Music in the Morning, and other arts and cultural organizations in Vancouver.
Most of my creative work as a visual artist has been photography or sculpture based and I have been happily photographing pretty much steadily since the age of ten when I received a Kodak Brownie Starmite camera as a birthday gift.
My teaching experience includes work as a University-College Instructor in the Visual Art Department at Malaspina University College (now Vancouver Island University) teaching courses in Photography, Drawing, Painting, and Art Theory. I was also a Faculty Instructor at the Vancouver Island School of Art, teaching a wide variety of courses and workshops, that included Drawing, Painting (Gouache, Watercolour and Egg Tempera), Renaissance Drawing and Painting Techniques (Fresco, Egg Tempera, Gilding, Silverpoint) and thematic courses on Artist Books, Creative Cartography, Urbanism, and on the intersections between Art, Science and Natural History. While completing my MFA in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria, I worked as a Teaching Assistant in Drawing, Painting and Art Theory courses. While working on a MA In the Department of History in Art at the University of Victoria, I was a Teaching Assistant for several years for the Introduction to Art History and Introduction to Film Studies courses.
My portrait, documentary, event and concert photographs have been published in a variety of web and print publications, including local and national newspapers and magazines as well as international magazines and journals, including the Atlantic Monthly, Light Leaks, All About Jazz, Jazz Times and Early Music America on-line and print publications.
I was an Assistant Photographer for the 2010 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival and have been the Official Photographer for the Early Music Vancouver Bach Summer Festival and annual concert series from 2011 to the present. I have also been the Official Photographer since 2012 for Vancouver's Music on Main, who produce a music festival in late autumn in addition to an annual concert series. I have also enjoyed working as a documentary and concert/performance photographer for the Vancouver Cantata Singers, Musica Intima, the Little Chamber Music Series, the Secret Lantern Society, Music in the Morning, and other arts and cultural organizations in Vancouver.
Most of my creative work as a visual artist has been photography or sculpture based and I have been happily photographing pretty much steadily since the age of ten when I received a Kodak Brownie Starmite camera as a birthday gift.