I am an artist and visual designer from Oakville, Ontario and currently reside in Kitchener-Waterloo. I am a graduate from the arts and business co-op program at the University of Waterloo, where I majored in Fine Arts. I am now working as a Curriculum Developer at Manulife in the training department. I develop e-learning courses and job-aids for in person training working alongside Instructional Designers.

Aside from work, I practice art at my home studio, specializing in intricate line drawings, landscape painting, and abstract photography. Although it may be a often used cliché, I am inspired by my immediate feelings and my experience in everyday life. My current art work is predominantly drawing and photography based, as outlined in the artist statement below:

"My studio work is comprised of ink drawings, paintings and photographs. These three concurrent bodies of work are linked by the observation of forms in everyday experiences. In the photographic works I explore ordinary images and make them extraordinary by manipulating the light of these objects and using artistic tools to form intricate and organic images. Similarly, the ink on canvas drawings are designed to create uncertainty and allow the viewer to incorporate their own interpretation of the pieces. The focus of the work is in the process, formation, and composition of the piece to suggest a landscape; this is done through a fluid automatic process, taking great care of the intricate detail to build the intended imagery. Similarly, my painting uses an automatic process using more gestural mark making and taking inspiration from the form and colour in the photographs. The different bodies of work inform one another through the abstraction of images that I find interesting in nature and in still life within domestic spaces. All of my work is intended to be closely examined, and to have only a hint of real world connection."

All images are to be used with permission from Christopher Andrew Smith.