Photographers observe; artists interpret. Digital imaging technology enables the synthesis of the two into a new medium that expands the horizons of both while permanently and increasingly blurring the distinctions between them.  

Where previously digital imaging techniques were applied primarily in the service of commercial messaging, the technology also opened up an infinite horizon of artistic possibilities that are only now becoming widely visible. My work attempts to explore the synergistic application of digital imaging to photographic observation in the service of artistic expression. 

Take a picture of a rusty panel scored by years of abrasion at a ferry dock, and you will probably be disappointed with the result - a bland metal surface with a bit of texture, of no particular interest. If you want to see multiple expressions of its potential – for colour, form, textural composition, and their interrelationships – you can view them via my digital images, on display in the Seascrapes collection.  

Having attended the Philadelphia College of Art and the Instituto des Belles Artes in San Miguel Allende, I worked for a time as a studio assistant to a highly successful commercial photographer before embarking on a career as a freelance writer/designer.  A deep and abiding love of the visual arts, however, has led me to expand my own horizons into artistic expression via digital imaging.  

I currently live on Salt Spring Island, on the west coast of Canada, and take full advantage of the special nature of the place to expand my perception. Seascrapes was on view throughout the month of April, 2010, at ArtSpring, our island’s center for the performing and visual arts.