I was born in Cold War Berlin. My first visual memory was staring at the clouds through a big hole in our ceiling left over from a WW2 bomb. My Father was not a Spy, although he liked to dress like one. We emigrated to Parkdale in Toronto Canada where I soon realized there were no Cowboys and Indians as promised to me by my parents. I began to draw, paint and take photos when I was very young.I went to Central Tech. Twenty years later I decided to go to York U. where I got to argue with a lot of interesting people about the future of Painting.
Since then I have had exhibits here in Toronto and also in Berlin where I try and spend a part of each year. I am a Conceptualist in that I find the process and medium which best describes my vision when approaching a subject or idea. As of late my work is a lot more photo-based.
I am affiliated with 'kunstraumt27' in Berlin, and I've exhibited at York U., the Lake Galleries, Urbanscape, Propeller Gallery and other venues here in Toronto.
I am in several Private Collections and would be happy to elaborate further if my Art interests you.
I believe the ART audience today is much more an Iphone and T.V audience, there is a desire for the visual hit that entertains. So for the moment I consider myself an entertainer.
CV upon request.

                                 Collage

These Collages are the culmination of several streams of ideas.  I went to see the exhibit at The Berlinische Galerie (2009) of John Heartfields' work of WW2 Protest posters. This prompted me to go out and take photographs of Graffitti and Street Art which I combine with text and other found materials. I always ask for permission when using a copyright.

Dive into life. 2010

The Life of Christine Keeler. 2010

The imperfect City of your dreams,not sinister, just plain happier.      2011

Girl with her Bear. 2011

Celebrate Nothing.2010

Art Wars with Bears. 2010

           
   
                

Collage #3

Agent provocateur. 2010

For Shauna,Etheline and Julia. 2010

Glorious.2011

Collage #1

For Volker Seding. 2010

Collage #2

Number 1.   2011

Collage #4

For Knut. 2011

Collage #5

                                   Pieta.
This is an image I re-create every few years either as an installation/soft sculpture or as I did here, as a 7ft.x4ft, vynil wall hanging.

Bring me your filthy,your confused, your hungry, violent and unsatisfied and I'll think about it....
Pieta 2011.

Pieta' 2002

Pieta'2007

The Divers. 2010

                               DRAWINGS

4x4ft. graphite powder, acrylic paint, eraser and chalk.

4x4ft. graphite powder, chalk, acrylic paint, eraser.

                               Photographs


I don't consider myself a Photographer like....too many great photographers to name, although I take a lot of pictures and a lot of my art work is now photo-based. I am interested in Colour and also a feeling of Intimacy in my subject matter. In the last few years the Camera has become very important to me as an artist. I am forever grateful for the invention of the digital Camera.

The Prairie Project

This was an installation of Photographs, Drawings and Wall Sculpture (Quatrofoils 2ft.x2ft) I did in Berlin for "48 Stunden Neukolln". It was about my personal  experience as an immigrant child coming to Canada and being promised Cowboys and Indians.  Some of the Quatrofoil Wall Pieces address a number of unsavory aspects of Canadian History. This installation was shown in a Cathedral on Karl-Marx Str.  It was accompanied by a Vintage archival soundtrack of a  Medicine man chanting, which was augmented by a live performance of Richard Citroen playing free form Jazz on a grand piano. The audience was a mixture of multi-national Berliners and hipsters. There were even a few Canadians in the crowd.

Prairie #1

Prairie #2

Prairie #3

Prairie #4

Prairie #5

Prairie #6

Quatrofoil #1

Compass.
This is a Memorial to the Native Children of the forced adoption that was implemented by the Church. Hundreds, if not more. Native children were taken from their natural Native families and given to non-native families to be raised. The implication of this aggressive act on Canadian Native People is still felt to this day.

                               The Bear. 2009

                                The Rosary. 2009

                       The Innocent eye. 2009

                                     Oil. 2009

The Mylar Drawings.
These spontaneous Drawings made with oilstick were a visual response to the invasion of Iraq. I believe the interpretation can be left to the viewer.

                                   Driver. 2003

Mylar #1

                                   Engage.2003

Mylar #2

                        What is left behind. 2003

Mylar #3

                              Dawns early light. 2003

Mylar #4

                                 Plume. 2003

Mylar #5

                                     Forgotten.2003

Mylar #6

                                   Blossom. 2003

Mylar #7

                              

Brothers and Sisters.
I decided to take a Doll Family on an outing. When I looked at the finished work I realized I had unknowingly created my own psycho-drama with various mishaps and
accidents. As a mature artist I am always amazed when my psyche pushes me into a
path of discovery that culminates in an artwork.




   

Brothers & Sisters #1

Brothers & Sisters #2

Brothers & Sisters #3

Brothers & Sisters #4

Brothers & Sisters #5

Brothers & Sisters #6

Brothers & Sisters #7