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24" x 36" x 1.5", acrylic paint on canvas. This painting was made using basketballs as a paintbrush.

  

Let's play ball 

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\- 30" x 40", acrylic paint on canvas, 2024\. Painted with a running shoe as a paintbrush. A paintbrush was used to further define marks made by the running shoe.

  
Noah Lyles OLY is an American professional track and field sprinter who competes in the 60 meters, 100 meters and 200 meters. His personal best of 19.31 seconds in the 200 m is the American record, and makes him the third fastest of all-time in the event. He is a one-time Olympic champion and six-time world champion.

  

Noah Lyles

40" x 72" acrylic paint on canvas. Painting made using a basketball as a paintbrush. A basketball was used to further define the marks made by the basketball as a paintbrush.

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This painting consists of the players: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (SGA), Luguentz Dort, Jalen Williams and Chet Holmgren, 

\- SGA, is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association

\- Luguentz Dort is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Dort is known by his nickname "the Dorture Chamber" for his defensive play and ability to lock down opponents. 

\- Jalen Devonn Williams, nicknamed J-Dub, is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.

\- Chet Thomas Holmgren is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association. Nicknamed “The Abolitionist, ” he was drafted second overall in the 2022 NBA draft.

OKC Celebration

\- 30" x 40", acrylic paint on canvas, 2024\. Painted with basketballs as a paintbrush. A paintbrush was used to further define marks made by the basketballs.

  
Aaliyah Edwards is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association. She played college basketball at UConn. She also competed at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games

Aaliyah Edwards

 3ft x 4ft, acrylic paint and wall paint on canvas, 2021\. Inspired by the imprints made with a soccer ball on the canvas. 

Wave Of Emotions

30" x 40" acrylic paint on canvas. Painting made using hockey equipment as a paintbrush.

This painting was made in collaboration with Laura Stacey LS7 Foundation for auction.

Marie-Philip Poulin and Laura Stacey

Summer gets hot and so do the people, the energy, the life. Buzzing around going to parties, pool parties, house parties. In the constant state of reapply the makeup and wiping of the water and sunscreen.

The outline of the faces are taking for a side profile of photo I took of a women standing on a street corner with Bright lipstick and designer sunglasses. She was in her element. Moving closer to the event or gathering that was calling her. 

She a Hot summer 

Double standards are put on everything in this world. You are this or that. You can.... be this BUT, you can't be that. This piece which is accompanied by bright colored triangles, are a representation of the outside world prying in to but standards on how you should show up in society. This creep in so much so that you have you have your own reflection of self looking back at you giving you the side eye. What is it that you are trying to be in the standards for? 

Double Standards

"The Raven," 2023, is a depiction of a raven with a firey bokeh background. The wings reflect the background lighting in the many colors that are often masked by their black satin feathers. The bokeh background could be interpeted as a sunset, fire, or both, like a phenoix escaping the flames or just an elegant raven in a bright sunset forest. 

The Raven

“Under the Flowers Mural” 2023, Approximately 10’ x 12’

A mural Commissioned by Wilson's Lasting Expressions Flower Shop, 204 W Washington Ave, Alpena, MI 49707\. Created to give the perspective as if you are standing under flowers.

Under the Flowers Mural

“Golden Hour” 2023, 24” x 36" acrylic on canvas. Received 3rd in a juried art competition with the theme "metals" at the gallery, Art in the Loft, in Alpena, Michigan
  
  

Golden Hour

“FLoral Butterfly wings Mural” 2023, 9’ x 4’ 

A mural Commissioned by Wilson's Lasting Expressions Flower Shop, 204 W Washington Ave, Alpena, MI 49707\. Created to give wings to whomever poses in front of the mural. 
  
  

FLoral Butterfly Wings Mural

“An Order of Hope Mural ” A mural located by the Alpena boat harbor behind Save a lot. Done for Downtown Alpena’s Fresh Waves mural project of 2021\. Done on a free standing panel to freshen up and brighten up to brighten up Downtown Alpena, Michigan.

An Order of Hope Mural

 “Branches Mural ” 2021 

A mural located by the Alpena boat harbor behind Save a lot. Done for Downtown Alpena’s Fresh Waves mural project of 2021\. Done on a free standing panel to freshen up and brighten up to brighten up Downtown Alpena, Michigan.

Branches Mural 

“Room in Green” 2022, 24”x 18” Charcoal. A still life capturing a collection of room items. 

Room in Green

“Pulling” 2023, 24” x 36” acrylic on canvas 

Pulling

“Victoria Flanner” 2023 

A portrait of my Busia (Grandma) done in charcoal
  
  

Victoria Flanner

 "Wired Bull" is a 2023 mixed media 24"x18" piece made by using steel wire to "paint" the bull and using acrylic paints for the background.

Wired Bull

“White Deer on Black” 2023, 12”x 16”scratchboard. A white-tailed buck captured on scratchboard. 

White Deer on Black

“Blair street pier compass” 2022, Approximately 11’ x 11’

A mural I was commissioned to do by the city of Alpena to cover up some vulgar graffiti. Located at the end of the pier on E Blair St, Alpena, MI 49707
  
  

Compass on Blair street 

A colorful multi media drawing of a dancer performing on stage with ribbons wrapped around her.

The Dancer

A colorful multi media drawing depicting a close-up of an owl's eye. done in water-soluble pastels, ink, acrylic marker, and colored pencil.

Was awarded 1st place at a non-juried art exhibit at the Besser Museum in Alpena, Michigan USA

Owl Eye

A still life of a vase done in charcoal on blue charcoal paper.

Vase in Blue

A multi-media self-portrait exploring two-dimensional concepts and the inner self. Depicting looking forward and growing through past and present pains. done in watercolor, ink, and pencil

2D self portrait 

untited

Devouring Voids

Mood Magazine

Muted Surveillance 

Something About Climate Change

The fog is rising 

Micro Mundo

Cultured Pout

An imaginative landscape populated with abstract organisms 

Ants in your picnic

States of expansion within an acid motherboard 

Curled Thyme

Night/Day

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Opposites Attract

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I have submitted three new works, part of a larger body of portraits made at home during the Covid-19 lockdown. 

They materialised after having to post-pone completing all other works that are inaccessible in my studio. Additionally having had to cancel the second edition of an upcoming open-call exhibition here in Lisbon this summer, that was in preparation in March 2020. I began the initiative in January 2020, featuring artists from the UK and Portugal. The Idea was to provide opportunities for European and International artists to showcase their work to contemplate the biggest questions facing humanity today.

This fall I will begin a PhD to explore art’s ability to heighten empathy amidst crises and its relationship with public policy. And this project submission responds to an unprecedented crisis.  Granting the opportunity for development because it has enabled me to work through the deepest nature of my work’s intention; to uncover how contemporary art can contribute to creating a more inclusive society in our modern world.


Covid-19 -Response

Landscape used to represent The Self, the past present and future.

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