As a young kid, I was the jock, my sister the artistic one. So my parents thought! Turns out flipping pucks into a net or running around on the soccer field weren't my only skills. Turns out I had a passion for design and creating art.

I first became aware of my artistic side when I worked in the corporate world. One day a co-worker of mine introduced me to a little program called Photoshop. And I began to play with it. My eyes opened up to a whole new world. It was a revelation for me after graduating with a B.A. in Economics. All of a sudden I started to view the world in a whole new light. Colours and shapes, architecture and nature were popping out at me at a fierce pace, my mind was racing with creative ideas that I couldn't and didn't want to turn off.

I started out in ceramics and like all new potters made a lot of "ash trays", until I figured out how to make the clay rise on the wheel. What a fantastic day that was. From there I made a host of functional pieces for family and friends. I was always being asked to make a bowl, a mug, a plate and I enjoyed forming those pieces immensly. The attention to detail that was required in the finishing and glazing processes was always very satisfying because those details could make or break a piece, but the feeling of the wet clay running around my fingers and through my hands was euphoric to me. It gave me joy to know that someone was using a little piece of art in their daily lives that came from my hands. Even so, I grew tired of making pieces on a small scale and turned my attention to larger abstract sculptural pieces. And that is where my heart truly lies. Now I solely make pieces that are meant to be displayed, viewed and enjoyed as works of art instead of lifted and sipped from.

Currently, I'm doing a series working with clay slabs. I like the simple lines of the slab and how you can take what appears to be a very mundane element and give it shape and size and transform it into something beautiful. Many times I won't put a glaze on these pieces, opting to smoke-fire them so they absorb that unique colouring that only smoke can emit.

A little after my introduction to computer graphics, I started writing and designing technical manuals and then eventually, being an entreprenuer at heart, opened my own design studio creating everything you can imagine for the web and print. That's the time in my life when I started painting alongside my clay work. I had always thought that pottery was it for me. That I would never use another medium, because I loved clay that much. How shortsighted. When I picked up the brush for the first time, dipped it in paint and took my first stroke across the canvas, my world changed dramatically. All of a sudden my arm was free flowing, the colour combinations were endless and it brought me great pleasure to stand in front of that preverbial blank canvas and just let the paintings come out of me.

That's how I work. I never go into a piece with a set plan. Whether it's clay or paint, I just let the art develop on it's own and many times I'll be in a somewhat transfixed state. I put thought into all my work, but the thought comes out naturally rather than pre-conceived. And I tend to lean towards minimilism as you've probaly seen in my listings. I love the purity of simple things, simple shapes, simple strokes, simple but powerful designs.

All of my work is original and is created in my mid-town Toronto Studio. Every piece is signed and a certificate of authenticity will be included with all purchases.

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