ABOUT

I am a Vancouver-based Motion Picture Art Director, Set Decorator & Illustrator. I have been delivering sets to camera for thirty years. My journey started with an ambitious pre-teen plan to illustrate movie parodies at MAD magazine, prompting a burst of very focused informal art studies, which 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 contracted part-time 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 professors associated with the Vancouver School of conceptual 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 visual arts, and my appreciation for the veracity of photographic texture & lighting, that I compose environments to complement storytelling. I have a disciplined approach to research, pre-visualization, presentation & design for motion picture sets, as well as having over thirty years of industry experience as a Head of Department - designing, budgeting & managing projects from concept to completion. I am an IATSE 891 & ACFC West Member.