I am self taught Canadian artist based in the Hudson ValleY.
Trained as a research geneticist, I left a PhD program in London to pursue a short lived and successful career in fashion photography in the late 1990’s. A cross country pilgrimage across America led to my first monograph STATES (2001) a hyper minimalist interpretation of post war American motorama and a career segue into blue-chip commercial photography.
I subsequently published three other photography monographs: FALL (2004) an minimalist study of autumn foliage, BLOWN (2009) a study on blown out tires and SHINE (2015) a project originated out of a commission for the NY Times on the weathered hands of immigrant shoe shiners in New York City. I have a 4th monograph POPLIFE on the nomenclature of bottle caps being published summer 2025.
In 2017, I closed my NYC studio and relocated to upstate NY to unpack creative projects. In 2018, I took IN MEMORIAM, a series of unconventional large scale funeral flower motifs to the ECC group show during the Venice Biennale. In early 2020, I began producing large scale abstract paintings of verbal communication. The HOBO GLYPH series utilize an early form of graffiti used by American travelers dating back to the Civil War.
The present series FOURPLAY employs a purposely designed, highly redacted font which facilitates the merging of positive and negative space in the creation of highly abstracted interpretations of 4 letter words. Clearly inspired by the dialect of word artists Wool, Indiana and Bochner, with a graphic language more akin to Kelly, Riley and Herrera. They are abstract riddles to be decoded.
I am married to an Aussie, we have a single child, two dogs and we live in a church on the Hudson River that we converted into a home/ studio in 2021. I drive a manual Mini.