ABOUT

I am a Vancouver-based Motion Picture Art Director, Set Decorator & Illustrator. I have been delivering sets to camera for twenty-nine years. My journey began with an ambitious pre-teen plan to illustrate movie parodies at MAD magazine. This prompted a burst of very focused informal art studies, which quickly segued into proper academic training, and finally landed me with an Honors B.F.A. as Head of my Graduating Class. During this time, I also started contracting as a Sculptor & Prop Maker for film. This introduced me to a collaborative creative environment more immediate than the distant offices of MAD magazine. I followed my B.F.A. with Graduate School, and completed two Masters degrees. First, an M.A. in Art History with a focus on realist traditions in pictorial art. Second - shifting from theory to practice - an M.F.A. in Fine Arts, focusing on applied picture-making with Graduate Advisors Jeff Wall & Ken Lum - both associated at the time with the Vancouver School of post-conceptual staged photography. After Grad School, I shifted my goal of drawing panels for MAD magazine to the venue at hand for making evocative pictorial spaces - motion pictures. It’s from this historical framework of fine arts, and my appreciation for the veracity of photographic texture & lighting, that I compose visual environments to complement storytelling. I have a disciplined approach to research, pre-visualization, presentation & design for motion picture sets, as well as having over twenty-nine years of industry experience as a Head of Department - designing, budgeting & managing projects from concept to completion. I am an IATSE 891 Member.