Handmade

Art, objects, sculpture and experiments made by hand, 2010–2026.

I’ve always made things outside of my professional practice, drawings, paintings, sculptures, furniture and one-off objects. The materials and scale change, but the impulse is largely the same: understand how something is made, work directly with the material, and keep refining it until the idea and the object feel inseparable.

Charcoal Drawings

Hyper Density, 2012, Charcoal on paper, 60 in x 84 in, private collection

A large-format charcoal drawing built through accumulation and repetition, where thousands of individual marks gradually resolve into a field viewed from a distance.

Hyper Density (detail), 2012, Charcoal on paper, 60 in x 84 in, private collection

Bowl, Centre, Fall In, Ring Inwards (detail) Charcoal on paper

Untitled, charcoal on paper

Recharge, charcoal on paper, 5' × 7'

Waves, charcoal on paper, 5' × 6.5'

Shadow Sculpture

An installation of cardboard paper tubes spanning a corner, using light and shadow to complete the form.

Nest

Poke - A dish that puts soap in its place

I became obsessed with the small frustration of a bar of soap sitting in its own water and slowly dissolving. Poke was my deliberately over-considered response: a soap dish that lifts the bar away from the surface rather than allowing water to collect beneath it.

What began as irritation with an everyday object became an exercise in reducing a problem to one simple physical gesture.

Poke, basswood 2010

This Damn Thing Won't Stop Following Me Around

Sculptural installation at Studio 93

This damn thing won't stop following me around, chicken wire, plywood plinth, studio lights and gels, 2015

Wheelbarrow for my nephew Sully

I designed and built a working wooden wheelbarrow for my nephew Sullivan. I wanted it to feel like a real object rather than a toy scaled down for a child, simple, durable and made to be used, and even be ridden in.

Built by hand from hard maple and Baltic birch plywood, with mortise-and-tenon joinery, dowels and removable wing-nut connections.

SullyBarrow, 2026 Maple and Baltic birch plywood.

Pushthrough Paintings

A series of material experiments made by masking areas of raw canvas with beeswax, then forcing successive layers of paint through the weave of the fabric from behind. The process gives up some control over the final image, the painting emerges through pressure, resistance and repetition rather than being composed entirely on its surface.

Process Regress Solo Show

My 2013 solo exhibition in Vancouver brought together drawings, sculpture, photography and installation produced across several years of studio practice.

Still Making

I continue to draw, paint, build furniture and make objects whenever I can. Some begin with a problem to solve; others simply begin with curiosity about a material or process.