Dialogue between clay and the body has always informed my work and grounded me in material practice. Through embodiment, and more specifically touch, a centering presence arises through which organic forms emerge.
It is the felt connection to the world, and the quiet allure of what arrives, as if from a dream, that draws me into the making of art.
Portrait by Kasia Gatkowska
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Lives and works on the ancestral swiya of the Shíshálh nation in sex̱wɁamin (Garden Bay, BC)
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ARTISTIC + CULTURAL WORK PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC
2026
Pottery Prowl (upcoming), Sunshine Coast, B.C.
The Quiet Between (group show), Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, B.C.
Ember (group show), 05 Rare Tea Bar, Vancouver, B.C.
2025
Vessel of the Wanderer (Earth, Fire and Form: A B.C. Ceramics Celebration Exhibition), Vancouver, B.C.
2024
Giving as a Way of Being: A Ceremonial Practice Exploring Life and Loss (Earth Bodies Exhibition), Qathet Art Centre, Powell River, B.C.
Comraiche Art Walk, Tidal Art Centre, Lund. B.C.
Lost at Sea (member show), Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, B.C.
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Sunshine Coast, B.C.
2023
Kokoro Rising (member show), Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, B.C.
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Sunshine Coast, B.C.
2022
Ancients (member show), Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, B.C.
Renewal, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, B.C.
Emergence, Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Tiny Art Gallery exhibit (solo), Gibsons, B.C.
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Sunshine Coast, B.C.
2021
Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Sunshine Coast, B.C.
AWARDS + RESIDENCIES
2025
Canada Council for the Arts Grant recipient for Meeting at the Watering Hole, Spain.
Joya: Arte + Ecología, Art Residency, Vélez Blanco, Spain.
2024
Tidal Art Centre, Art Residency, Lund, Canada.
2023
Canada Council for the Arts Grant recipient for Living in the Bone House, Japan.
Wabisavillage, Art Residency, Sasama, Japan.
2022
New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, Art Residency, Fredericton, Canada.
2009
Governor General’s Gold Medal Award Nominee, Arts Based Masters Thesis, Royal Roads University.
ARTS + CULTURAL TRAINING AND LEARNING
2025
Drawing from Fundamentals to Creative Expression, Capilano, University, B.C.
2024
Colonial Symptoms and Decolonizing Practices, Art Talk, Sunshine Coast Art Council. Online.
What is a Kiln? State of Ceramics discussion, A-B Projects. Online.
2023
Materializing Resistance, Studio Session with Sarah Christie. A-B Projects. Online.
2022
Embodiment Practitioner™, Robert Bosnak and The International Society for Embodied Imagination®, Los Angeles, C.A.
2019
Strange Encounters: Figuration and Narrative in Clay, Alessandro Gallo. Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Indonesia.
2018
Focus on Form: Mindful of Surface, Lorna Meadon. Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Indonesia.
Harnessing the Energy of Nature: Sculpting with Earth & Fire, Shozo Michikawa. Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Indonesia.
Earth & Smoke: Weaving and Folding, Candone Wharton. Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Indonesia.
2017
Culinary Clay: Where Food Meets Plate, Hillary Kane. Gaya Ceramic Arts Centre, Indonesia.
2016-2010
Deep Imagination Facilitators Training (2016), Year Long Soulcraft Intensive (2014), Deep Imagery (2012), Soulcraft Intensive (2011), Vision Quest (2010), Animas Valley Institute, Colorado.
2009
Master of Arts in Environmental Education & Communication, Royal Roads University, Victoria, B.C.
2006
Bachelor of Education, UBC, Vancouver, B.C.
2005
Bachelor of Arts, UBC, Vancouver, B.C.
PRESS + PUBLISHED
2024
Feature Artist, Zoom magazine, Sunshine Coast, B.C.
Chthonic, photoED magazine, The LAND issue, digital extra.
2022
Sea Foam, Westwords Newsletter, Roundness of Seasons online ed.