ABOUT ME   

I am a Canadian illustrator living and working in Vienna, Austria.

My first drawing lessons were at the kitchen table with my older brother. As I continued drawing I tried to compete with my father’s drawings of birds and my Grandmother’s effortless sketches of whatever she saw. I drew at every opportunity when I was little.


In high-school I had my first taste of illustration, when an ambitious friend of mine recruited me to draw posters for the punk rock shows he was organising. It was classic stuff: punks in leather jackets, devils and zombies, scenes of weirdness and bodily harm, and as many crazy typefaces as I could come up with. Since it was all rendered in scrappy black-and-white Xerox, I was forced to put down my pencils, take up inks and learn to draw clearly and boldly. Trying to catch the eyes and the imaginations of the local kids I began to learn the basics of visual communication.

When I eventually moved to Halifax to study Fine Arts at NSCAD University I continued to illustrate within the music scene. Those xeroxed flyers lead to commissions for album covers and t-shirts, exhibitions of my illustrations, and judging CD artwork for the Juno Awards in 2007. During my time at NSCAD I also drew comics, publishing an annual collection called LUCKY along with two fellow students. After graduation I began to work in a kitchen, learning to wield a knife by day and building my portfolio by night.

In 2009 I moved to Vienna Austria just a few miles from the school where my grandmother learned to draw. Shortly after arriving I attended Yuko Shimizu’s Summer Illustration Workshop in Venice and have since begun freelancing full-time.

I live in Vienna’s Fourth District with my girlfriend Lisa and our cat Nauru. I now work from my home studio and cook in my own kitchen.




Selected Clients

Plansponsor, The Coast weekly, Backburner Recordings, Radiator Collective, Just Friends Records, Diminished Fifth Records, Music Nova Scotia, Snapped In Half Tapes, Jesse Dangerously, Zoey Van Goey, Myles Deck and The Fuzz