About Me
I believe being brought into our sense of wonder and beauty has the power to open us to personal, emotional and spiritual insights. I am a visual artist residing in Victoria, BC (Lekwungen territory), and I get to spend every day creating work that attempts to bring people into that sense. I am a painter, drawer, animator, and tattoo artist, and I am passionate about my work.
My art covers an array of mediums and subjects. Growing up on Northern Vancouver Island, I was provided with an endless supply of artistic inspiration in the natural world around me so my art often includes plants and animals of the West Coast. Painting portraits is also a specialty of mine, using watercolour, oil paint, or inlaying copper and shell into wood. I am also a tattoo artist, creating wearable art for people to carry with them for the rest of their lives. Stop-motion animation is another medium I have worked in – writing, animating, and scoring short films that have screened in over 100 film festivals around the world. I have won 12 awards for my animation work.
One of my favourite things is doing custom work. I find joy in taking someone’s idea and bringing it to life for them. To order a custom piece of art, click here.
Part of being a person of privilege in this land means learning how to use that privilege for the good of those around me. I use a sliding scale model for a lot of the work I do, and I donate a portion of all my profits to Reciprocity Trusts, an initiative that collects from businesses and redistributes wealth to local indigenous nations. If you are interested in buying work from me but you face financial barriers or are part of a marginalized group, please reach out and we’ll have a chat! Everyone deserves art regardless of income.
Awards
Nominated for a 3rd Leo Award
Matrix Award
Vancouver Short Film Festival
2020
Underdog Award
Vancouver Women in Film Festival
2020
Best Animated Film
Leo Awards
2018
Best Art Direction in Animation
Leo Awards
2018
URSULA Lesbian short award
Lesbich Schwule Filmtage – Hamburg, Germany
2015
Danielle McClellend Emerging Filmmaker Award
Bloomington Pride, Indiana
2015
Best Short Narrative Audience Award
Translations Film Festival, Seattle
2015
Best Animated Trans Short Film
North Carolina Gay Lesbian Film Festival
2015
Best Animated Film
Golden Panda International Short Film Festival
2015
Audience Choice Award
ImageNation, Montreal
2014, 2015
Transgender Short Film Audience Award
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
2014
Film Festivals
2024
- International Transgender Day of Visibility festival – Nîmes, France
2023
- Zefrstival – Nice, France
2022
- Comox Valley international FilmFestival – Comox, Canada
- Flickfair On Demand Film Festival – Online
- Sensei Tokyo Film Festival – Tokyo, Japan
- North Bay Film Festival – North Bay, Canada
- Comox Valley International Film Festival – Comox, Canada
2021
- Spirit Film Festival – Tel Aviv, Israel
- Lisbon Film Rendezvous – Lisbon, Portugal
- Zeitgeist Film Festival – Los Angeles
- Sparrowland Short Film Festival – Brisbane, Australia
2020
- Indo Global International Film Festival – Mumbai, India
- Azores Fringe Festival – Azores, Portugal
- Tehran International Animation Festival – Tehran, Iran
- Open World Animation Festival – Allentown, U.S.A
- Routes to Roots Film Festival – Norfolk, Canada
- Vancouver Short Film Festival – Vancouver, Canada
- Vancouver International Women in Film Festival – Vancouver, Canada
2019
- Manchester International Short Film and Animation Festival – UK
- SPARK Animation Festival – Vancouver, Canada
- KINOdiseea Children’s Film Festival – Bucharest, Romania
- Animafilm – Baku, Azerbaijan
- Quickdraw Animation Society – Calgary, Canada
- 86-Dumbo Film Festival – Brooklyn, NY
- Open World Animation Festival – Allentown, PA, USA
- Zebra Animation Friendly Festival – Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
- Vancouver International Women in Film Festival – Vancouver, Canada
- Winter Film Awards – New York, USA
- Inshort Film Festival – Lagos, Nigeria
- Vancouver Short film festival – Vancouver, Canada
2018
- Cellu L’Art Short Film Festival – Jena, Germany
- Chaniartoon, International Cartoon & Animation Festival – Chania, Greece
2017
- Back_Up Film Festival – Weimar, Germany
- Rendez-Vous with Madness: TUNNEL VISION – Toronto, Canada
- TAF Thessaloniki Animation Film Festival – Thessaloniki, Greece
- Cinema Crianza – Galicia, Spain
2016
- Park Lounge II – Werribee, Australia
- Écrans mixtes – Lyon, France
- Dawson City International Short Film Fest
- Vues d’en Face – Grenoble, France
- Cellu l’art Film Festival – Jena, Germany
- Queers in Shorts – Cambridge, UK
- Freiburg gay film festival – Freiburg, Germany
- Queer Noise @ Queer Arts Festival – Vancouver, Canada
- Transform Cinema – Sheffield, England
- Equality Film Festival – Ukraine
2015
- Syster Syster Festival (with Amnesty International) – Stockholm, Sweden
- Amsterdam LGBT Film Festival – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Fairy Tales Film Festival – Jasper, Alberta
- Fairy Tales Film Festival – Calgary, Alberta
- DV8 LGBT film festival – Vienna, Austria
- Inside Out – Toronto, Canada
- Translations – Seattle, USA
- In & Out Festival – Nice, France
- Transcreen – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Wonderlust festival – Helsinki, Finland
- Rio LGBT festival – Rio, Brazil
- Queer City Cinema –Regina, Canada
- North Carolina LGBT Film Festival – North Carolina, U.S.A
- Aarhus film festival – Aarhus, Denmark
- Queerfilm Festival – Bremen Germany
- Perlen Film Festival – Hannover, Germany
- Paris Lesbian & Feminist Film Festival – Paris, France
- Taiwan International Queer Film Festival – Taipei, Taiwan
- South London Shorts – London England
- Fresno Reel Pride – Fresno, CA, U.S.A
- Queersicht Film Festival – Bern, Switzerland
- RollenWechsel – Oldenburg, Germany
- Regent Park Film Festival – Toronto, Canada
- Milwaukee LGBT Film Festival –Milwaukee, U.S.A
- 58-Tilde Trans Film Festival – Melbourne, Australia
- Golden Panda International Short Film Festival –Toronto, Canada
- Experimenta – Bangalore, India
- Bloomington Pride – Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A
2014
- MIX – New York U.S.A (2013, 2014)
- Cliterature – Kitchener, Canada
- Festival at the Sea – On a cruise ship from New York to Bermuda
- CineSlam – Vermont, U.S.A
- Out North – Whitehorse, Canada
- TISFEST – Istanbul, Turkey
- Fairytales – Calgary, Canada
- Kashish –Mumbai, India
- Film Out – San Diego, U.S.A
- Out CT – Connecticut, U.S.A
- Freiburg Lesbian Video + Film Fest – Freiburg, Germany
- Rainbow Reels –Waterloo, Canada
- Frameline – San Francisco, U.S.A (2014, 2015)
- Qfest – Texas, U.S.A
- OUTwest – Santa Monica , U.S.A
- North Carolina Lesbian & Gay Film Festival – North Carolina
- MIX Copenhagen – Copenhagen, Denmark
- Scottish Queer International Film Festival – Glasgow, Scotland
- Reel Q – Pittsburgh, U.S.A
- Seattle LGBT Film Festival – Seattle, U.S.A
- Pink Screens – Brussels, Belgium
- Lesbisch Schwule – Hamburg, Germany
- Kommunales Kino – Esslingen, Germany (2014, 2015)
- Shorts on Tap – London, England
- San Fran Trans Film Festival – San Francisco, U.S.A
- Reelout – Kingston ON, Canada
- Dunlop Art Gallery – Regina, Canada
2013
- ImageNation – Montreal, Canada (2012, 2013, 2014)
- Quebec City film festival – Quebec City, Canada
- Melbourne Queer film festival – Melbourne, Australia
- Mezipatra– Prague & Brno, Czech Republic
- Side by Side – St Petersburg /Moscow / Tomsk, Russia
Purchase Artwork Online
Shop for cards, prints, and more in the online store.
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Custom Art Commissions
Order an original piece from your own imagination.
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Land Acknowledgement
I live and work on the unceded indigenous territory of the Lekwungen people. I do my best to walk gently on this beautiful land, and I strive to support the communities who have tended it for thousands of years. One way I do this is by donating a percentage of my profits to Reciprocity Trusts.