Since I was a toddler, I’ve been gathering sticks, and my earliest memory is being given wood off-cuts, a hammer, and nails. Today, my reverence for wood and craftwork continues, shaped by a BFA from Queen's University, years managing my furniture-making company, Alternative Woodworks Ltd., and my role as a Woodworking Instructor. At every opportunity, I consider the influence of trees and the nature of wood as I navigate the world.
My endeavours have resulted in my furniture, studio, and public artworks being showcased across Canada. To share my investigations more widely, I’ve developed a curatorial aspect of my practice by creating a commercial art gallery, organizing multiple exhibitions, and hosting land-based artist residencies; I also cultivate community through family-friendly workshops and educational initiatives.
Through a multifaceted approach that integrates traditional woodworking and design with artful techniques, I look to wood to foster a holistic account of our surroundings. Working with its characteristics—how it expresses itself and how it's perceived—I celebrate the material’s value in poetic and practical terms.
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PUBLIC ART
-Oct 2025- ongoing. Shaping the Found. Brooklin, Ontario.
-July 2025- ongoing. Fluence. Westwood Lake Park. Nanaimo, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2025. Luminus Paths: Nanaimo’s 150 & Beyond. Nanaimo, BC.
-July 2024- May 2025. Adage. Municipality of Oak Bay, Arts Alive Sculpture Walk. Victoria, BC.
-August 2024. Installations at the ArtisTREE Festival. Government House, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2023-2028. Compelling Agency. City of Nanaimo’s Temporary Public Art Program, Nanaimo, BC.
-Oct 2023. Reclaim Public Art presentations. Rotunda Building, Victoria, BC.
-Sept 2023. Reconversion. N!GHT L!GHT Festival, Victoria Park neighbourhood, Calgary, AB.
-Aug-Oct 2023. Endlessness. Allthingy Multipurpose Platform, Salt Spring Island, BC.
-Nov 2022- Feb 2023. Pliant. Victoria Arts Council’s Window Gallery at Studio 531 Architects, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2022- Dec 2023. Reposition. Ministry of Casual Living’s Window Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July 2018- ongoing. Interweave. Lobby of the Cowichan Community Center, Duncan, BC.
-Jan-March 1998. Water and Architecture. Stauffer Library at Queens University, Kingston, ON.
SOLO SHOWS
-Jan-June 2027. From Here, View Gallery at the VIU’s Nanaimo Campus.
-Jan 2026. Green Parallax. Hourglass Gallery as part of the new VIVAS building celebration. Victoria, BC.
-March 2025. Conversing Gestures. Little Fernwood Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-December 2024. Ject. The Vault Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July-Sept 2024. Imprints. VAC Airport Satellite Gallery, Saanich. BC.
-Sept-Oct 2024. Conversing Gestures. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.
-May-June 2022. FOUR-FOUND. arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-Sept-Oct 2021. Timber Timbre. Cedar Hill Art Gallery, Saanich, BC.
-Apr 2018. Out of Seen. The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Jan 2013. Impressions: Art, Craft, Poetry. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
GROUP SHOWS
-Oct-Nov 2026. Homestead. VIVAS' The Hourglass, Victoria, BC
-Nov-Dec 2025. Near at Hand. arc-hive artist-run Center, Victoria, BC.
-April-May 2025. Shifting Ground. Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
-March 2025. Self-portrait Exhibition. Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC.
-Aug-Sept 2024. Palimpsest. Metchosen Art Pod, Metchosen, BC.
-March 2024. PRINT: imPRESSions. arc-hive artist-run Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2023. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-Apr-May 2022. Extractions: Resources Through an Artistic Lens. CHA, Coquitlam, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2021. Eco Echo. Victoria Arts Council’s ‘Vault’ Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-Nov-Feb 2020. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2019. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-May-July 2019. Alternator Artmart. Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC.
-Apr. 2019. Imprint. Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC.
-Mar-Apr 2019. Luminescence IV. Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
-Apr 2018. Harmonized Motion. Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Mar 2018. Under/Where? The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Nov 2017-Jan 2018. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2015. Decored. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-May-June 1999. Headlock. Union Gallery/Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON.
-Dec 1996-Jan 1997. Cruz. Union Art Gallery, Kingston, ON.
-Sept 1995. Emergence/See. Definitely Superior Artist Run Centre, Thunder Bay, ON.
RESIDENCIES
-Sept 2027. Invested Landscape, Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC.
-May 2026. Harvest Moon Society. Clearwater, Manitoba.
-Aug 2025. Intervene: part of STEPS Public Art's RECLAIM Residency Program. Mill Bay, BC.
-June 2024. Joya. Vélez Blanco, Spain.
-May 2024. Empire of Dirt. Creston, BC.
-Aug 2023. RECLAIM. Pat Martin Bates Gallery with The Victoria Arts Council and STEPS Public Art. Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2022. Outlier (Ou Gallery). Gabriola Island, BC.
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
-Sept 2027. Curator of Invested Landscape, Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC.
-Oct 2026. Curator of Homestead, the Victoria Print Society's annual show at VIVAS's the Hourglass, Victoria, BC.
-April 2026-ongoing. Woodworking Instructor, Sunrise Waldorf School, Cobble Hill, BC.
-Jan 2026-ongoing. Workshop facilitator, Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Artist in the Schools Program
-Aug 2025. Host and key facilitator of INTERVENE: part of STEPS Public Art's RECLAIM Residency Program. Mill Bay, BC.
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, District of Tofino, BC.
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Urban Design Roster. Nanaimo, BC.
-Feb 2023. ‘Touch’ Creative Mornings Talk. Victoria, BC, and broadcast globally.
-2022-ongoing. Member of the Victoria Print Society
-Dec 2010–April 2012. Owner, Creative Director and Artist, Points Art Gallery, Duncan.
-2004-ongoing. Owner, Operator and Creative Director of Alternative Woodworks Ltd
EDUCATION
-1996-1999. Bachelor of Fine Arts (accredited) Queens University.
-1995-1996. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lakehead University.
My endeavours have resulted in my furniture, studio, and public artworks being showcased across Canada. To share my investigations more widely, I’ve developed a curatorial aspect of my practice by creating a commercial art gallery, organizing multiple exhibitions, and hosting land-based artist residencies; I also cultivate community through family-friendly workshops and educational initiatives.
Through a multifaceted approach that integrates traditional woodworking and design with artful techniques, I look to wood to foster a holistic account of our surroundings. Working with its characteristics—how it expresses itself and how it's perceived—I celebrate the material’s value in poetic and practical terms.
CV-
PUBLIC ART
-Oct 2025- ongoing. Shaping the Found. Brooklin, Ontario.
-July 2025- ongoing. Fluence. Westwood Lake Park. Nanaimo, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2025. Luminus Paths: Nanaimo’s 150 & Beyond. Nanaimo, BC.
-July 2024- May 2025. Adage. Municipality of Oak Bay, Arts Alive Sculpture Walk. Victoria, BC.
-August 2024. Installations at the ArtisTREE Festival. Government House, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2023-2028. Compelling Agency. City of Nanaimo’s Temporary Public Art Program, Nanaimo, BC.
-Oct 2023. Reclaim Public Art presentations. Rotunda Building, Victoria, BC.
-Sept 2023. Reconversion. N!GHT L!GHT Festival, Victoria Park neighbourhood, Calgary, AB.
-Aug-Oct 2023. Endlessness. Allthingy Multipurpose Platform, Salt Spring Island, BC.
-Nov 2022- Feb 2023. Pliant. Victoria Arts Council’s Window Gallery at Studio 531 Architects, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2022- Dec 2023. Reposition. Ministry of Casual Living’s Window Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July 2018- ongoing. Interweave. Lobby of the Cowichan Community Center, Duncan, BC.
-Jan-March 1998. Water and Architecture. Stauffer Library at Queens University, Kingston, ON.
SOLO SHOWS
-Jan-June 2027. From Here, View Gallery at the VIU’s Nanaimo Campus.
-Jan 2026. Green Parallax. Hourglass Gallery as part of the new VIVAS building celebration. Victoria, BC.
-March 2025. Conversing Gestures. Little Fernwood Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-December 2024. Ject. The Vault Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-July-Sept 2024. Imprints. VAC Airport Satellite Gallery, Saanich. BC.
-Sept-Oct 2024. Conversing Gestures. Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC.
-May-June 2022. FOUR-FOUND. arc-hive artist-run centre, Victoria, BC.
-Sept-Oct 2021. Timber Timbre. Cedar Hill Art Gallery, Saanich, BC.
-Apr 2018. Out of Seen. The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Jan 2013. Impressions: Art, Craft, Poetry. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
GROUP SHOWS
-Oct-Nov 2026. Homestead. VIVAS' The Hourglass, Victoria, BC
-Nov-Dec 2025. Near at Hand. arc-hive artist-run Center, Victoria, BC.
-April-May 2025. Shifting Ground. Dundarave Print Workshop and Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
-March 2025. Self-portrait Exhibition. Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC.
-Aug-Sept 2024. Palimpsest. Metchosen Art Pod, Metchosen, BC.
-March 2024. PRINT: imPRESSions. arc-hive artist-run Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2023. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-Apr-May 2022. Extractions: Resources Through an Artistic Lens. CHA, Coquitlam, BC.
-Jan-Feb 2021. Eco Echo. Victoria Arts Council’s ‘Vault’ Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-Nov-Feb 2020. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-July-Aug 2019. Sooke Fine Arts Show. Sooke, BC.
-May-July 2019. Alternator Artmart. Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC.
-Apr. 2019. Imprint. Fort Gallery, Fort Langley, BC.
-Mar-Apr 2019. Luminescence IV. Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC.
-Apr 2018. Harmonized Motion. Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Mar 2018. Under/Where? The Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC.
-Nov 2017-Jan 2018. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Nov 2015-Jan 2016. OneTree Exhibition. Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2015. Decored. Martin Bachelor Gallery, Victoria, BC.
-May-June 1999. Headlock. Union Gallery/Ontario Hall, Kingston, ON.
-Dec 1996-Jan 1997. Cruz. Union Art Gallery, Kingston, ON.
-Sept 1995. Emergence/See. Definitely Superior Artist Run Centre, Thunder Bay, ON.
RESIDENCIES
-Sept 2027. Invested Landscape, Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC.
-May 2026. Harvest Moon Society. Clearwater, Manitoba.
-Aug 2025. Intervene: part of STEPS Public Art's RECLAIM Residency Program. Mill Bay, BC.
-June 2024. Joya. Vélez Blanco, Spain.
-May 2024. Empire of Dirt. Creston, BC.
-Aug 2023. RECLAIM. Pat Martin Bates Gallery with The Victoria Arts Council and STEPS Public Art. Victoria, BC.
-Aug 2022. Outlier (Ou Gallery). Gabriola Island, BC.
NOTABLE ACTIVITIES
-Sept 2027. Curator of Invested Landscape, Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC.
-Oct 2026. Curator of Homestead, the Victoria Print Society's annual show at VIVAS's the Hourglass, Victoria, BC.
-April 2026-ongoing. Woodworking Instructor, Sunrise Waldorf School, Cobble Hill, BC.
-Jan 2026-ongoing. Workshop facilitator, Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Artist in the Schools Program
-Aug 2025. Host and key facilitator of INTERVENE: part of STEPS Public Art's RECLAIM Residency Program. Mill Bay, BC.
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Public Art Advisory Committee, District of Tofino, BC.
-2024-ongoing. Member of the Urban Design Roster. Nanaimo, BC.
-Feb 2023. ‘Touch’ Creative Mornings Talk. Victoria, BC, and broadcast globally.
-2022-ongoing. Member of the Victoria Print Society
-Dec 2010–April 2012. Owner, Creative Director and Artist, Points Art Gallery, Duncan.
-2004-ongoing. Owner, Operator and Creative Director of Alternative Woodworks Ltd
EDUCATION
-1996-1999. Bachelor of Fine Arts (accredited) Queens University.
-1995-1996. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Lakehead University.