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I am an artist and an award winning children’s picture book illustrator.

My acrylic landscapes, both en plein air and in the studio, occupy a great deal of my time. I am proud of my commissions, especially when dealing with historic material, picture book illustration and portraiture. My work progresses in nude and portrait painting, and I continue to draw and do my daily memory sketch project.

Gracie, the Public Gardens Duck (Nimbus), a number one best selling children’s picture book in Nova Scotia, was awarded the Lillian Sheppard Award for Excellence in Illustration, and the Atlantic Book Publishers Award. I illustrated I Spy a Bunny (Nimbus) and have illustrated Viola Desmond Won’t be Budged (Groundwood, publication pending). I received a grant from The Helen Creighton Folklore Society to research a children’s story which I am writing and illustrating.

I enjoy giving private classes and workshops in painting and drawing, and working with school children.

I live and work with my artist wife, Susan Tooke, at Elm Street Studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

February, 2010

I am an artist and an award winning children’s picture book illustrator. My acrylic landscapes, both en plein air and in the studio, occupy a great deal of my time. I am proud of my commissions, especially when dealing with historic material, picture book illustration and portraiture. My work progresses in nude and portrait painting, and I continue to draw and do my daily memory sketch projec... More