Collaborative Consultant in Creativity & Transformation
Victoria, BC
I am a self-taught, freelance visual artist living in Victoria for over 15 years. Throughout life, I have naturally observed and absorbed my surroundings in order to reinvent, recreate and intentionally enhance them wherever possible, both for the simple pleasure of experiencing beauty, and for enhanced function and performance. I grew to love the use of technology to render my artwork as a tool to make it available for use in print, media, web, and many outlets, which allowed me to quit my desk job and start freelancing in 2015. Mainly driven by personal growth and development, I’ve always looked for new opportunities to express myself in a new way, to learn something new, and to create and build more connections. A little luck – and some hard work – brought me to the right place at the right time to try muralling for the first time in 2018 through the City of Victoria’s Concrete Canvas project in Rock Bay. I fell in love with the creation of public art, finding new ways to express myself and trying to bring more joy and well-being to my community through large-scale painting. I found the multi-faceted artform of muralling was healthier for my body and more challenging for my mind; solving new puzzles, working outdoors and interacting with the public every day.
This is how I met Steve Woolrich, while painting under the Johnson Street Bridge. Coffee brought us together for inspiring conversations, and years later we have finally found the right projects to start collaborating. My goal with Rethink Urban is to use my artistic background to enhance and enrich public life through their lens of environmental design, community safety and wellbeing. I hope to keep choosing courage over comfort, creating in a way which evokes feelings of love and hope in my audience, and perhaps in turn inspire others to push past their own limitations and strive for the “impossible”.