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Just released into the wild, my second, 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle for WerkShoppe Studio in LA! Both product and packaging are utterly delightful, coming in a bold, colourful cylinder, with two art inserts tucked inside. More of my creative typography went into this one, which is always a blast to make, and I’m SO pleased with the results!  You can find this puzzle here…

My latest 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle has just arrived! WerkShoppe Studio has created the most beautiful puzzle from my happy, heart-shaped, peachy, pink and orange, 3D collage, and packaged it in a delightful canister containing two art inserts to help put it together. It’s some colourful puzzle fun, from me to you… 🧡💛❤️💗🧡💛❤️💗🧡💛❤️💗🧡💛❤️💗 Thank you, WerkShoppe Studio!

Uppercase Magazine is that beautiful, quarterly, Canadian, art/design/typography/craft publication that has been produced pretty much single-handedly by editor Janine Vangool for the past 15 years. I’ve had the pleasure of wiggling onto its pages in many issues for assorted creative call-outs, as well as featured in two of their ‘Encyclopedia of Inspiration’ series of books (‘Ephemera’ and ‘Art Supplies’), and was honoured to be commissioned by Uppercase to create the cover art for their issue #22 in 2014. With my colourful art gracing the outside, a wonderful article on me and my work was nestled on the inside. Janine has...

A few years ago, I completed a huge collage project, my ‘Four Elements’, which was one long, large paper collage comprised of Air, Water, Earth and Fire, and filled to the brim with ephemera, photographic images and paper-constructed, 3D elements. Cobble Hill Puzzles then turned this behemoth into four, interconnecting jigsaw puzzles, which fit together vertically. A visiting filmmaker, Alan Agopsowicz, (the husband of my lovely photographer for the project, Jo-Ann Richards) said, ‘Wow, if I don’t make a film showing your process, no one will have any idea just how intensively handmade your work is’.  If you’re at all...