Born in 1982, Toronto, Canada, Lives and works in Quebec. My cultural background is Jamaican and Canadian. I speak in english and french.

Portrait Series:
The face is the fundamental canvas for communicating expression; sometimes it needs a little paint to be objectively bold. Native tribes believed painting the face was a medium for awakening ones personal power to amplify their inner spirit. It was a ritual, an element of valour in the celebration of life. The act is ancient but this idea of puissance in a facial paint job is the primal concept in this body of wax portraits. These images exist in the context of the modern portrait. Derived from a cultural melting pot of symbolic colours, for example, red is associated with sexuality and fire, orange - joy and sunshine, purple - luxury and ambition, green - fertility and healing et cetera. Our culture determines its references for the meanings of colours and we use them accordingly to our advantage. In each portrait, the face painting is perfunctory in its application, yet relevant for taking on the contemporary jamboree of the everyday quest- to find out who we are in life. These works drip with modern rhetoric; they are the tribal masks of todays fashionable fellow. The expressions are entertaining and the realism uncanny, they serve their purpose its difficult to ignore. But thats not the main vehicle for discourse. At the soul of these portraits shouts an empirical motivation to augment our appearance and express our selves with passion.
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