This piece is about celebrating oceans, and their beautiful complexities. This design is heavily inspired by the talented 19th century German marine biologist, Ernst Haeckel, who published intricate drawings and paintings of bacterium, animals, and plants as “Art forms in nature” from the perspective of the naked eye to the microscopic level.
10’ x 3’ outdoor mural - latex on concrete. Completed for BUMP Road Works Program 2025.
First photo credited to Stephen Dolha.
Located at 2310 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1X2
This piece illustrates various Species at Risk in Alberta currently listed by the Alberta Wildlife Act! Either with a status of sensitive, at risk, threatened, or endangered, all of these species populations are under threat for various reasons, with many relating to the Anthropocene / human impacts on ecological and environmental well being of the landscape.
This mural features western spiderwort flowers dispersed amongst the grass, a white bark pine in the midst of it all, with a northern leopard frog climbing it’s trunk, and a yellow bellied-racer slithering about the branches.
10’ x 3’ outdoor mural - latex on concrete. Completed for BUMP Road Works Program 2025.
First photo credited to Stephen Dolha.
Located at 2310 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1X2
This piece illustrates various Species at Risk in Alberta currently listed by the Alberta Wildlife Act! With a status of sensitive, at risk, threatened, or endangered, all of these species populations are under threat for various reasons, with many relating to the Anthropocene / human impacts on ecological and environmental well being of the landscape.
This second mural features the swirling eddies of natural watercourses with bull trout , west slope cutthroat trout, and rainbow trout swimming within them, and the tracks of a hungry grizzly fishing for their next meal ashore, across the way from some tall soapweed flowers.
10’ x 3’ outdoor mural - latex on concrete. Completed for BUMP Road Works Program 2025.
First photo credited to Stephen Dolha.
Located at 2310 4 St SW, Calgary, AB T2S 1X2
44 × 72” Acrylic, watercolour, alcohol marker & gel pen on recycled plywood. AVAILABLE.
Inspired by the Canadian Rockies wildlife corridor, this transposition of the topography in Jasper National Park is an ode to the connectivity of a landscape, and how changes in one aspect of our environment, such as a new residential development, or construction of a roadway, will inevitably reverberate throughout.
Multimedia on birch, 28” round. 2024. AVAILABLE.
Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus), or iqaluk (ᐃᖃᓗᒃ) in Inuktituk, is a cold-water salmonid fish species that northern populations rely on for livelihood and preservation of traditional Inuit and subarctic Indigenous knowledge and ways of life. Arctic charr is the only freshwater fish species found throughout the entirety of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (up to 81° N). Dwarf fireweed, or Paunnait (ᐸᐅᓐᓇᐃᑦ), along with the blossom of other tundra vegetation is a vibrant signal of the emergence of spring in the Arctic, the time when iqaluk begin spawning. Paunnait is a resilient plant, thriving in disturbed soils, yet providing versatile nutritional and medicinal uses in Inuit culture. As our planet warms, there are several negative impacts that iqaluk face; from higher mortality rates due to warmer and acidifying waters to changes in spawning and run timing from changing lake and sea ice conditions, to the fragmentation and loss of habitat from climate-induced landscapes changes, this and other cold-water species are at high risk of becoming endangered.
Acrylic on canvas, 45x60cm. March 2021. NFS.
Permutation celebrates the importance of remote sensing and satellite imagery in environmental research, monitoring, and change detection of rapidly warming Arctic regions through the complexity and vibrancy of riverscapes in the autumn, and its unique ability to highlight diversity in Arctic flora and fauna. I see northern landscapes as a beautiful paradox of power and fragility. The strength of the winding, rushing water through vibrant patches of lush vegetation, overflowing into small clusters of lakes and ponds throughout. The strength of place connection that northern and Inuit communities have to their land. The strength of adaptability within all species to changing ecosystems. The fragility of land stability as permafrost thaws, and grounds slump and erode into our waterways, like the roots of a tree spreading into the ground. The fragility of water security north and south as water quality, quantity and reliability is threatened. The fragility of our quality of life, our home. And the strength that we, as a community, hold in our actions to protect our life source
This piece is a part of the Arctic Polarity exhibit in the Virtual Water Gallery.
Acrylic on birch, 28” round. 2022. SOLD
Kluane’s Symphony celebrates the expansive landscape of Kluane Lake, Łù’àn Män, meaning ‘big fish lake’ in Southern Tutchone, that holds inexpressible meaning to the Kluane, Champagne and Aishihik, and White River First Nations, researchers, and all visitors. Beginning with intricate rootage of subarctic flora, and all that graze through it, to the shores of the deep glacier-fed turquoise waters, where aquatic life rest from their long journey. At spring surge, the mountains overlook the braided rivers from the sweeping glaciers. As nightfall arrives, the aurora begins dancing through dark skies while all lay to rest before continuing their annual migration.
Acrylic on canvas, 50x60cm. May 2022. AVAILABLE
This piece is a part of the Arctic Polarity exhibit in the Virtual Water Gallery.
Foundations highlights the complex layers of the subsurface that play a key role in Arctic land stability. As air and ground temperatures increasingly rise each summer, permafrost thaw is exacerbated, and the integrity of these interwoven and interdependent horizons begin to disintegrate; the integrity of the root systems encapsulated by this once frozen ground, the above ground biomass and the columns of infrastructure lying atop supported by this rigidity. The equilibrium of water flow both surface and sub feeling the disruption, the ratio of water and ice walking a thinner and thinner line. The symphonic resiliency of nature as it adapts to these breaches, and the reflection of this resiliency within the hearts of all living communities.
Acrylic on canvas, 45x90cm. September 2021. SOLD
Acrylic on canvas, 30x60cm. April 2021. SOLD
Acrylic on canvas, 30x40cm. 2020. NFS
Acrylic on canvas, 30x60cm. 2022. SOLD
Acrylic on canvas, 28x36cm. 2020. SOLD
Acrylic on canvas, 22x30cm. October 2021.
Acrylic on canvas, 10x20cm. 2020. AVAILABLE
Acrylic on wood, 28x36cm. 2021. SOLD
Acrylic on canvas, 25x50cm. December 2020.
Acrylic on canvas, 20x20cm. May 2020.
Company banner created for non-profit organization Grow Calgary. September 2020.
Acrylic on canvas, 30x60cm. 2022. AVAILABLE
Acrylic on canvas, 45x60cm. 2015. NFS
