Edmonton-based artist and designer, mashing the past and present.

ON THE PROFESSIONAL SIDE

I’m a product-focused designer, brand strategist, and systems builder with over 20 years of experience creating scalable, cohesive design ecosystems across web and mobile platforms.

I lead with a business mindset, balancing creative excellence, operational efficiency, and bottom-line impact. My career bridges the analogue and digital worlds — from earning my H.A.M. Radio Operator’s license in high school to studying Fine Arts and New Media when the internet was emerging. This lifelong curiosity about communication and technology shapes how I approach design systems today: building flexible frameworks that serve users, empower product teams, and drive business growth.

As the marketing manager at We Know Training, I lead brand and design strategy across a $10M+ portfolio of seven brands, developing unified standards and scalable systems that enhance customer experience and team collaboration. As the owner of a creative agency (Bucketduck Inc.) for two decades, I’ve helped organizations across sectors strengthen their brand presence, simplify complexity, and create consistent, high-quality digital experiences.

My superpower is consistency — in how I uphold brand and design integrity, how I collaborate across teams, and how I deliver results. I believe great systems don’t just create order; they unlock innovation, build trust, and tell a powerful story across every touchpoint.

I also maintain my own consultancy at Bucketduck Inc.

COLLECTED

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Oil on Board

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H.D. Carrigan

Oil on Board

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This is another artwork I found at a thrift store last month. I love it, but I can’t find any information about the artist (signature looks like H.D. Carrigan?). Depicts a street scene of an active alleyway, with the Hotel MacDonald (Edmonton) in background. I love the popcorn vendor!

Oil on Board

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Oil on Board

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Margaret Thomson Tweedale

Oil on Board

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Found this at a thrift store, and it’s signed Margaret Thomson. Could it be by famous artist Tom Thomson’s sister Margaret?

Oil on Board

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Works on Paper, Shoe Polish

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Father Paul-Emile Côté

Works on Paper, Shoe Polish

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Found this beautiful landscape by Father Paul-Emile Côté (1913-2014), Canadian artist. Did some research and his medium was shoe polish! His palette included 90 different colors of shoe polish and cream from 20 different brands.

Works on Paper, Shoe Polish

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CREATED

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Repurposed Herds

These pieces are ‘decorative’ antiques that I have collaged and painted directly onto, re-contextualizing the pieces and giving them a new story.

Uninformed Consent

With this series, I’m exploring the idea of something not-from-your-body being added to the body. The invasive and intrusive nature of surgery.

Combining 19th century carte-de-visites portraits with contemporary haute couture fashion, this series explores mash-ups embodying the evolution of photography as social media and social currency.

Woodblock personas

The figures collaged onto these woodblocks explore different personas.

Doodles on existing prints

This series explores the idea of herds on modified existing framed prints.

Altered Documents series

All of these pieces use antique print materials, with collaged elements on top, including transfers of historical photos or rubber stamps, to give an alternate context to the original.

“Do Not Remove” series

These photos document existence in another time and place. Not the big events or important people, but the mundane and everyday. I found the photos in this series in an unlabelled folder at the provincial archives, and the seemingly random nature of the subjects drew me to them.

Deck of Boxes series

These boxes are like little devotional objects for characters. The exteriors show their outer appearances, and the interiors delve deeper into their characters, revealing their traits and secrets. Each character has an element associcated with it, as well as a color. And the edges of each wooden base has a pattern unique to each character.

Wedding portraits

These are all based on famous paintings, and I've put the faces of the couples into the work, and they're painted at the same scale as the original paintings.

Edmonton-based artist and designer, mashing the past and present.

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COLLECTED

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