I recently undertook a project that involves illustration. Because I have not sketched in years (the extent of my sketches needed for my work includes just boxes and arrows), it took me a while to find that flow again. For inspiration, I looked up the stash of bookmarks I have on illustrators, collected along the [...]

It is no secret that scale can create powerful drama. One of the installation projects I created in school was based around repetition and scale. Banal items of everyday life, when grouped in the thousands, compels our reconsideration of their relevance around our lives. Much in the same manner, Ron Mueck’s hyper-realistic sculptures amplifies human [...]

Over the past few days, I have been exploring with only 2 colours - black and white. I was trying to challenge myself to rid most of everything I produced of colour for one week. Initially, it was a very surreal experience - black and white can be graphic and bold, yet shades of grey [...]

I have always had an affinity to minimalism. I personally feel that my best work is typicall minimal in appearance and simple in concept. Without distractions, the structure is obvious, the intent is obvious and the essence is pure:

“Frank Stella, born in 1936 in Malden, Massachusetts, has been considered a major American artist for almost [...]

“The Lens Paintings are a new development for Sigmar Polke - an artist whose career is characterized by over 40 years of radical invention in painting. The conceptual framework of the Lens Paintings is grounded in theories set forth by Johann Zahn in his 1685 book, Oculus artificialis teledioptricus, sive telescopium (The Teledioptric Artificial Eye, [...]

Depending on your outlook, obsession can be a good or a bad thing. A few years ago, I developed a rather unfortunate case of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in reaction to certain incidents that occurred in my life. I was controlled by my fears of cancer. I was not bedridden, but my productivity was, without a [...]

Lawren Harris is another Canadian legend in the art world. Part of the Group of Seven, he pioneered a distinctly Canadian painting style in the early twentieth century. He reduced already stark Canadian Arctic landscapes into semi-abstract forms and simple shapes, and stopped signing and dating his work in the 1920’s so the viewer will [...]

I cam across this Belgian sculptor recently and her work just blew me away. Her visually-arresting sculptures seem to reflect torture, pain and suffering in life - disturbing notions that I try to shy away from. It’s really a culmination of carcass, wild butchery and rotting flesh. Take Marthe, as pictured below:

A life-size, frail, sallow [...]

André Butzer is a German artist whose work is not typically my idea of beauty. I have an affinity to minimalism and simplicity, but his work is frequently the complete opposite of my ideals. Jarring colours and crude, rudimentary figures explode onto his canvases, creating paintings that exude a wild, rather unrestrained, energy and creative [...]

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is one of the most important American Artist from the 19th century. He had a profound impact on the course of European and modern art. The above is a portrait of his mother, created because his model did not show up for a sitting.
“The austere portrait in his normally constrained [...]