​I have worked full-time in publishing for many years, serving a wide range of clientele. This includes creating full-colour cover art, cartography, woodcut/linocut art, full-colour interior art, diagram art, pen-and-ink illustrations, and pure design layout work for magazine, book, and brochure publishers. This is how I worked, and it greatly improved my skills as an artist. Working on a wide range of art pieces, styles, mediums, and subjects gave me valuable practical experience that working only on what I felt comfortable creating did not offer. You learn far more when you work outside your comfort zone.

My art is inspired by the nature that surrounds me, focusing on local natural history.