Jay is a New West-based artist often working with mixed media collage combining found images and/or painted backgrounds, with pencil drawing and watercolour.
“The drawn elements are always the key focus of the work whereas the found imagery creates background and context. I emphasize the drawings by utilizing watercolour or acrylic washes but the pencil marks are always clear which, for me, echo the rudimentary creative form I used throughout my childhood. Using this technique, the central images seem somehow ghostlike and ethereal and create a separation of the object from its’ environment.”
Over the years Jay has had the pleasure of exhibiting his work both solo and with his siblings in group shows that often included collaborative creativity. The latter has been an inspiration that has reinvigorated his joy in making art.
Jay lives in an ancient house in New Westminster that overlooks a cemetery. He shares his life with his husband, along with a painfully adorable rescue pup, and ghosts too numerous to mention (including a fat old tabby cat).
See Jay’s exhibition “Pinned & Wriggling” on now in the Gallery at Queen’s Park!
