I’ve been a professional violinist for nearly 30 years…but am a relative newcomer to the visual arts community. This site is a place for me to collect my thoughts, drawings and personal projects, along with news on some of the more creative and unusual collaborations that I’m involved with as violinist.

As a highly-trained classical musician but mostly self-taught visual artist, I’m really curious about the push and pull between the learned and the intuited. Both music and the visual arts have rich, centuries-deep histories with strong academic traditions and schools of approach…and both celebrate improvisation and free creation as equally relevant forms of expression. The thread across my various collaborations is this elasticity between the known and the unknown.

Materials – wood, hair, metal, paper, graphite, ink – find common ground in both art-forms, as do concepts and techniques like colour, tone, texture, range, composition, palette, light and shade, dynamics, structure, perspective, form and narrative. In my drawings, I like to borrow and blur, mirroring, echoing and inverting this into that for an unfamiliar view of familiar things.

And hands are central, whether they’re sculpting, writing, playing the piano, drawing, they’re often the primary executors of our imagination and creativity, bringing thoughts and feelings to life in a form that can be shared with everyone.

Continually finding new points of comparison and overlap between the two art-forms, my current focus is on exploring alternative forms of expression that merge visual art and music in unusual and personal ways.