Growing up and working on the beautiful BC Coast has fostered in me a strong appreciation for the environment and a fierce desire to protect our coastal waters and ancient forests. As a commercial diver harvesting sea urchin up and down our coast from the bottom of Vancouver Island to the top of Haida Gwaii, awesome spectacles of nature (ASNs) became daily experiences. Being visited under water by a mother orca and her calf, swimming with hundreds of playful Pacific white sided dolphins, or having a couple of Dalls porpoises fly past your boat at over 50kmh lets you know that you are not alone out there. Humpbacks (they live to an age of 60 to 70 years) and Grey whale water spouts on a glass calm morning, annual herring spawns where the nearshore waters turn white for miles with milt and eggs, timid yet inquisitive coastal wolves foraging at low tide, a lone bear on his way somewhere in no hurry, sea otters playing games on your deck while you’re trying to sleep, seals and sea lions, Rock fish, Rat fish, Sculpins and Ling Cod, Wolf eels and Giant Pacific octopuses, all ASNs that have shaped the way I see the world!

The beauty that I have experienced has given me a respect for all that is not human. I keep the environment in mind with everything that I do. The survival and financial gain of a corporation must never come first.

The coastal environment has taught me how to design and build to withstand extremes and I have come to believe that longevity of service is a fundamental requirement for all design. Past experiences; designing and building boats out of both aluminum and fiberglass, creating tools and equipment for diving and arboriculture, as well as timber-framing with local Douglas fir, have given me a skill set well suited to creating objects that will never end up in a land fill.

I strive to create objects and images with social and ecological consideration, both telling stories and solving problems.