heres the interview from notebook magazine you can pick it up at any chapters in edmonton contact me if your not.


When you start to design a new piece do you start with a clear image in mind or does it emerge as you work on it?

When im starting on a piece very often, even If I sit down with an idea in my mind it transforms as im working on it. I try to treat it as an experiment letting the piece direct me more then the opposite for the most part this does make it hard sometimes, when I do have an idea I would like to paint I end up with an amazing piece but end up with the idea still being stuck with me.

What are some of your inspirations?

Music and movies have always been a big inspiration to me, but a lot of my work is inspired by the world and the direction it seems to be failing in, more and more it seems its on a course for destruction more toxic pollution pouring out poisoning us and the world we live in and the governments we elect to protect us from such things are un willing to protect us over profits and yet the majority seem to be so brain washed that they except it as ok. I have this over whelming feeling that we are on the downward spiral that we will end up creating a version of the world I created in my head yet much worse as fictions only half as bad as reality…

What programs do you use in your work?

I mainly work in Photoshop cs2 but I start my images in poser a 3d program I use to make a base model and the transfer over to Photoshop to do the painting using a Wacom tablet I would say a good 90% is done in Photoshop with out the use of any photo manip asides from the textures. I also use a program called Bryce 3d for some however I haven’t been using it as much over the last couple yrs

Do you have any artists that you look up to?

Quite a few, the obvious H.R Giger he was the first artist I found that was creating art that moved me and showed me that not all art was barns and trees or flowers. Chet Zar is prolly my biggest inspiration his art is amazing and he’s given me much advice and help along the way. Dali for unlocking the world of art his works have always been favorites of mine for those reasons I gave my son the middle name of Dali Zar. Others that have would include Chad Michael ward, Beksinski, Toulouse-Lautrec, Tim Burton so many really it would be impossible to list them all

I love that a lot of your pieces seem to be part of a narrative. They really pull me into a story. Do the characters lives develop in your mind as you work on them?

Sometimes, they have defiantly started to become part of a world ive been creating it would be nice one day to have the time to make a story based in that world and let loose my imagination on a new level, but in reality ive just been too busy to take a project of that level at this point, its defiantly something I would like to do in the future however

Do you find that websites like deviantart.com provide a sense of community?

I find they can in some cases and for some people ive found they have been more powerful just as a way to show my work and get feedback, a good way to get my work out to many thousands of people that I would never have had the chance to expose to my work too from around the world and opened many doors for me combined with sites like facebook and myspace it has really open the world up for an artist new or old

Could you see your art taking a commercial turn? Where would you like it to go?

That is the goal and it defiantly has been on the start, I would like to live off of my art I don’t have to be huge and rich (not that that wouldn’t be nice) just comfortable. With how many avenues there are to market art these days I really feel its going to be possible.

What are you excited about these days?

Well me a few other local artists have been putting on art shows together called Creative Inquisition every couple of months at different locations around the city the next one should be in June however an exact date and location haven’t been set keep an eye out for the posters. A busy and productive year of art. The little new things a 2yr old does, new art by artists I follow and well of course 4 more years of conservative control in Alberta it’s a democracy right ? lol

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heres the interview from notebook magazine you can pick it up at any chapters in edmonton contact me if your not.


When you start to design a new piece do you start with a clear image in mind or does it emerge as you work on it?

When im starting on a piece very often, even If I sit down with an idea in my mind it transforms as im working on it. I try to treat it as an experiment letting the piece direct me more then the opposite for the most part this does make it hard sometimes, when I do h... (read more)