| When did you get your start as an artist? |
| | I have been a photographer for as long as I can remember but I have only been painting for about six years. I haven’t done photography in a while, but it was good while I was learning but doing weddings and portraits became tedious.
I started painting one Halloween night when I felt inspired. I stopped by an art shop and bought the paints and brushes then went home and improvised a landscape.
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| So were you a natural? |
| | Oh no, it was nowhere near my best work but I have spent a lot of time since then learning through hard work and experimentation.
With my abstracts I start out with probably half of it finished in my head but once I start working the painting takes on a life of its own. It’s hard for me to know when an abstract is finished; when I am working on a still-life I at least have a guide. The landscapes tend to create themselves, I start with the horizon and add trees, hills and water wherever feels right.
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| What inspires your work? |
| | My inspiration can come from almost anything. One week I could look down and see a crack in the sidewalk and the next it could be someone’s drapes. Anything really, colors, people, I am open to almost any inspiration. |
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| Your work covers a range of styles, is there anything you have found to be more challenging than the rest? |
| | Sometimes people will ask me to recreate a painting that I have sold. For me it is very difficult to do, especially if I am not feeling it. Even if I have a reference photo it is hard to capture the same energy and emotion that was in the original. |
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| So, what’s next for you? |
| | I have a few works in progress and I have been contacted by a gallery in Montreal about a show in July. I tend to keep a fairly low profile and I am only able to do my art part-time so their phone call really came as a surprise to me. |
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