Industrial Perspective

For Industrial Perspective, I scouted images of graffiti covered boxcars, mechanical cranes, smoke stacks, container ships and electrical switch-yards in order to narrate the present day stories of the ports and industrial sites dispersed around Vancouver and Toronto: honing in on the diversity of textures and colours found on the fringes of these zones. Back in my studio, I then began to layer these images into mixed media/painted surfaces. My aim here was to expose the brutal contrast between the beauty versus the grit of both urban and natural surroundings and to bring forward these often overlooked and under appreciated parts of the city. Through my mark making and image-manipulation I am essentially creating a new genre of landscape painting.