I'm a visual artist, author and educator. I studied visual art, literature, science, mathematics and education at University (take from that what you will). I work between teaching high school Visual Art, writing, painting and creating illustrated books. I have worked as a muralist, website and graphic designer, book editor, English literature teacher, workshop facilitator, creative consultant and excavator operator.  I also have some experience in organic carrot weeding and commercial greenhouse cultivation :) 

I focus on making pictures and telling stories. Sometimes with paints, sometimes with words. The stories are usually about nature (the outside kind as well as the human kind), wilderness and the unknowable (both out there and in here) and how the most important things are often the ones we can't or don't see. By telling stories, I'm learning to pay attention to life, do the work of living a good one and share the experience of being a human with other curious humans. 

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Born and raised in the land of pine-clad hills, glacier-fed lakes, and hockey (Canada), I am now based near Newcastle, Australia with my favourite people in the world.  Whenever possible, you'll find me (or won't), far away from the beaten path where the world feels open and quiet and everything we have is enough.​​​​​​