Studio Name: Fainting Goat Studio
I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and raised in small towns and
farms in Northern Alberta.

Iconic Canadian skies on endless fields pocked with deserted
homesteads, developed my deep love for the abandoned.

As a child I and my dog would journey along dirt roads and train
tracks and through fields and forests in search of treasure and adventure.
Armed with my faded rucksack, rope and hammer, a bona fide explorer, I
would unearth jewels of old jars and bottles, worn egg shiners, wooden handles
made smooth by toil and tractor parts buried like fossil bones in the dust of top
soil. I discovered every abandoned farm was a place of memory. A history
of the forgotten lives of the people who once lived there.

Not much has changed in over thirty years. I am still an avid explorer, artist and
story-teller. It is my inspiration to honour these settlers - to give sense,
scope and remembrance to the lives of our ancestors and originators of the
Canadian spirit.

This spirit is reclaimed, transformed into plaster on canvas with acrylic,
pastel, charcoal and the found sculptural metal, bone and and/or wood.
New life is breathed into these relics. The dross of dreams.

If you look hard enough you will live the past. And if you listen
well enough you will hear the sting of the prairie wind blow through
the fields of grain on a forgotten farm at the tip of the world.

My newest work was literally created from a pilgrimage across the Alberta
and Saskatchewan prairies and through the thick mountain forests and
expansive beaches of the Northwest coast.
This work includes remnants of early homesteads and ghost towns and fragments from the logging, cabin and shipping era’s of the early 1900’s – bones, chains, spikes, bed springs, various metal containers, pieces of cars, and many other spent things.

All pieces are plaster on canvas with acrylic, pastel, charcoal and found objects.