ABOUT
I am a Vancouver-based Motion Picture Art Director, Set Decorator & Illustrator. My journey to a full time career composing sets started with an ambitious pre-teen plan to illustrate movie parodies at MAD magazine. This prompted a burst of very focused informal art practice, segueing into a longer spell of proper academic training, leading to an Honors B.F.A. as Head of my Graduating Class. During this time, I also started contracting as a sculptor for film, which suddenly immersed me in a creative environment more immediate than the distant offices of MAD magazine. To keep things rolling, I followed my B.F.A. with Graduate School, completing two Masters degrees. My first, an M.A. in Art History with a focus on realist traditions in pictorial art. My second - a shift from theory to practice - an M.F.A. in Fine Arts, prompted by an opportunity to focus on applied picture-making with Graduate Advisors Jeff Wall & Ken Lum - both associated with the Vancouver School of post-conceptual staged photography. Upon finishing Grad School, my goal of drawing panels for MAD magazine shifted back to the more immediate venue for making evocative pictorial spaces - motion pictures. It’s from the conceptual framework of fine arts, and my appreciation for the veracity of photographic texture & lighting, that I compose visual environments to create opportunities for inspired staging. I have a disciplined approach to research, pre-visualization, presentation & design for film & television sets, as well as having over twenty-eight years of industry experience as a Head of Department - budgeting & managing projects from concept to completion. I am a IATSE Member.