Copper Plate Dry-point Etching, 2012 This dragon was inspired by a passage in "Lives of the Artists" by 16th century writer Giorgio Vasari who told a story about a buckler shield painted by a young Leonardo Da Vinci. The shield has never been found but through the accounts of Vasari I found clues as to how it might have looked. This is my interpretation of what Leonardo's dragon painting might have looked like.

Copper Plate Etching and Image-on, 2012 This work was an homage to my grandmother who passed away of a stroke in Nova Scotia during my school semester. In my back pocket a childhood photograph of my grandmother is tucked away and I hold a small shell in my hand as I face away from the viewer. The pose is intended to be just before skipping the shell across a body of water while remembering my time in Nova Scotia and my first and last time meeting my grandmother.

Copperplate etching, 2013 The HMS Friday was a fictitious sailing ship which was said to be sent out by the British Navy to dispel sailor's superstition about sailing on Fridays being bad luck. The story says that the ship was made, crew selected, and sailing started all on a Friday but after setting out the ship never returned. This work is my fictitious discovery of the HMS Friday at the bottom of the sea by Robert E. Peary on his voyage to the geographic North Pole.

Copper Plate Ething, 2013 By Sea is a mini-book etching about my experiences in the Gulf Islands off the coast of BC. The background is a map of the Gulf Island overlaid with images pertaining to water travel and voyage. The wave motif also incorporates images of historic "map monsters" from old time world maps.

Detail of By Sea in book format