In Tune With Nature: Piano Box Mural
Natural History Artworks
In Tune with Nature is a very different kind of mural, serving as a theatrical structure that houses a piano available for public use. Located at the front entrance of the Chemainus Public Market, this Piano Box mural encloses around the piano at night, when the market is closed, and ...
Urban Harmony School Mural
Educational Murals
Urban Harmony is the sister mural of Natural Harmony at the Aurora Charter School in Edmonton, Alberta. Teachers, parents, and myself, as the mural artist wanted to strike the imagination of students using technology, architecture, fantasy, and nature inspired by the southern hemisphere, where the sky has Aurora Australis, not ...
Kelp Patrol Ocean Mural
Natural History Artworks
This mural was a partnership between myself, Jane Molstad of the McCauley Revitalization Strategy, and representatives from Lucki's Exercise Equipment, a local business with mural desires. The designated mural wall had been constantly hit with graffiti over the years, to the point where it was one of the most problematic ...
Wildlife on Land: Paintings
Natural History Artworks
This collection of wildlife paintings spans a couple genres, continents where I painted, and time periods. Several of these artworks were created during my artist's residency at Sachaqa Centro De Arte in San Roque de Cumbaza, Peru, where I was encouraged by myself, my hosts, and my artist contemporaries to ...
Wildlife at Sea: Paintings
Natural History Artworks
We are instinctively drawn to life in the sea, and part of my job as an artist is to help us become even more curious and attracted to it. Where I love helping people get into the ocean to see first hand the abundance of life in the sea, painting ...
Landscape Paintings
Natural History Artworks
The landscape painting is often the first genre most folks think of with art, and for good reason. An age old genre where artists portray the essence of nature, landscapes can show many different settings, such the ocean, jungles, mountains, rivers, beaches and forests. When I paint a landscape I ...
Whale Paintings
Natural History Artworks
From humpbacks to finn whales to orcas to blue whales, creating an artwork about whales remains one of the simplest and most complex subjects I've ever painted. Whales where the first subject I ever drew as a child and continue to be my favourite artworks today. I've only seen one ...
Storyboards show a film or commercial as a comic book. They are a sequential graphic representation of how a video will read to viewers, unpacking each sequence shot by shot as a visual story. Storyboards illustrate the shots that will show the film, and give a window into what the ...
Conceptual art provides a visual actualization for a client's ideas. Whether creating architecture, advertisements, fantasy characters, or film sets, it's far easier and cheaper to see sketches of your ideas before investing in bringing them to life, and far easier to change a sketch than a building. Concept art will ...
Paradise BC Ocean Mural
Natural History Artworks
Paradise Adventure Park in Parksville, BC, commissioned me to create two murals for their mini golf course. The first mural has a BC ocean wildlife theme, with orcas (or killer whales), sockeye salmon, sitka deer, an otter, seal, eagles and Canada geese. The painting is a split screen showing animals ...
The Famous Five Mural
Portraits
This mural was part of the Giants of Edmonton; a partnership between Capital City Clean Up, Ched Radio, and the public where radio listeners recommend and vote for outstanding Edmonton people, places, or things as subjects for the murals. The Famous 5: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, Nellie ...
Our Natural Home: River Valley Mural
Natural History Artworks
Our Natural Home was a mural project created with the Giants of Edmonton Mural Program that depicts the North Saskatchewan River running through Edmonton. The Giants program was a partnership with Capital City Clean Up and 630 CHED Radio where the public voted on which local heroes and examples would ...
Nature and Humanity: Paintings
Natural History Artworks
As an artist who's favourite subject is nature and who is often called to paint figures and portraits, I find it natural to combine people with animals in an artwork. This juxtaposition of humanity and wildlife is often based on a common thread between the two species, a subject that ...
Wildlife in the Air: Paintings
Natural History Artworks
We are fascinated with the ability to take to the air, and we often hold the creatures that can do so in a metaphorical higher regard, compared to their cousins on the ground. As a wildlife artist, when I paint a bird I am painting a world I can never ...
Boer War Mural: Canada's First Conflict
Narrative Artworks
This mural was painted to represent Canada's first official military involvement, the Boer War, specifically the theatres of Leliefontein and Wolve Spruit.The foreground of this military mural depicts Sergeant A.H.L. Richardson, of Strathcona's Horse, rescuing a wounded and stranded soldier, on a wounded horse, no less. The middle ground of ...
Team Martin: Curling Mural
Narrative Artworks
Team Martin was a mural project painted for the Giants of Edmonton, a collaboration with the City of Edmonton, Ched Radio, property owners and the public, where inspirational Edmonton residents are commemorated in a mural. When this mural was painted, Kevin Martin's team had recently won the gold medal in ...