I was extremely honoured to be one of 16 artists selected for Calgary’s 2023 BUMP Mural Festival. My piece, Multiply Layer is about the tension between digital and analogue modes of making an image. This mural is inspired by the manipulation of fabric and how the patterns on the surface become warped with the physicality of its wrinkles. By overlaying a similar pattern over top, a moire effect is produced. This phenomenon is common in photography but often edited out. By intentionally producing these lines, their geometry can be examined without the threat of deletion. Their non-digital, painted presence as the focal point of this piece legitimizes the pattern as a dynamic, moving form as opposed to an undesirable mistake.
2023 / Mural
BUMP Mural Festival
Habitat Design, 739 11 Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Wall-to-Wall Mural Festival
Chip’s Vintage Storefront
2022 / Mural
Working with fabric has been a common theme in my work for the better part of 4 years. In particular, striped folded fabric has been wrapped around my process the most - despite focusing on it for so long it always feels new to me. As I have developed my methods for painting like this, I am able to notice patterns and don’t require a reference photo like I used to. Although there are similarities in the ways that the imagined sheet of fabric folds, it will never be the same as the next time I imagine it to be dropped, folded, wrinkled and smooshed.
It is fun to play a game with myself by imagining where the lines are hidden by a crease or overlap and following them from their start to their end. This piece, imagined for the side of Chip’s Vintage, takes up the whole space and doesn’t give any hint to where it starts or ends. We can imagine this sheet of fabric continues beyond the frame of the surface of the mural.
Kilter brewing co.
"Oceania" Hoppy Lager
2022 / Illustration & Design
I was approached by Kilter Brewing Co. to design a label for their summery beer, Oceania. Refreshing colours and crisp lines to reflect the laid back feeling of sipping a beer with an ocean view. This hoppy lager is dry-hopped with Oceanic hops and influenced by the Pacific West Coast with an assertive bitterness and moderately fruity, resinous, dark vibes.
SoHo Flats
Colour Fastness
2022 / Mural
In papermaking and textile arts, Colour Fastness refers to dyed material's ability to sustain its colour over time and with exposure to heat and light. This piece was inspired by the process of paper making and how upon slicing into stripes, the dampness of the not-yet-dried paper desired to cling to itself and fold in unpredictable ways. The colours were chosen to be bright and noticeable even over time. As the folds of the image overlap, the colours change and borrow saturation from each other by being combined in different ways.
The Forks Winnipeg + Synonym Art Consultation
Roadway Murals
2022 / Mural
Currently, I am navigating my own naiveté in digital media and how what I learn can inform my “analog” art. Allowing tools and programs I am unfamiliar with to manipulate a scanned image of a painting that I have physically made does not abandon authorship but rather creates a dialogue between myself and technology. My recent work pushes back and forth between analogue and digital art, and how putting an image through a process that deteriorates it legitimizes the mistakes it already had. To take this process further, I like to play a game of telephone with my pieces, revisiting familiar shapes and patterns and putting it through a process of scanning, tracing, and repeating to create a new image.
Vessel Beer
"Murky Buckets" New England IPA
2020 / Illustration & Design
Using the labels to celebrate local visual artists as much as the locally crafted beer, Vessel gave me free range to show off my work to surround their hazy IPA. A wriggling and warped swath of striped fabric meanders around the surface of the can and passes through the V-shaped logo. A candy-coloured scheme hints at the citrus notes of the beer.
Juneberry + Fireside Design + Synonym Art Consultation
Juneberry
2019 / Private Commission
Using black and white images to compliment the warm tones of the restaurant, I screen printed overlapping patterned fabrics that evoke both tea towels that can be found in the kitchen and warm comforting textiles from home.
