Visual artist and novelist. I post new work on Instagram @MindCaptive, and my books are available wherever books are sold.

A rat of unfired clay on top of an oil can, painted with acrylic and nail polish and who knows what else, made ten years ago as a test for an art fabrication job I didn’t get. About to survive its second move🤞 #claysculpture #clayrat
#ceramics is sending me on a pretty steep learning curve. This thing is cracked, and the rats lost their eyeballs to runny #glazes . Some really nice looking spots among this disaster, though. Will try again! #artistproblems
Quin and Scoob with the paper mache raccoon (only because it was on the shelf). 🎉 Happy Birthday 🎁 to the beautiful, talented and all around awesome lady, who also plans to marry my daughter! Did I mention how much I approve? Love to have you in th
Today, an ugly painting. How’s everyone’s attention span doing with the twentieth century rerun we’re all living in? #ukrainetoday #standwithukraine 🇺🇦
Portrait in progress, #oiloncanvas Having a kid turn 26 can sure make a person feel old! When I was your age, you had just learned to speak in sentences, and already had your entire personality: brilliant, tenacious, exacting, funny. You were also t
“Fun” with #glazing 🤪
Finally made it back to @conezeroceramics to find that my double-rat garbage situation survived first round of firing! Woot. Color decisions: Black rat + white rat or two grey rats? #neopalissy #figurativeceramicsculpture #figurativeceramics #handbui
Tchotchkes oil on plywood (in better light)
Tchotchkes, oil on plywood 10”x10” (something different, western-civ-themed 🙄)
Herb, Auckie, and Otis in Toronto, oil on plywood, 6”x6” @auckland_doggo @herb302
Haven’t painted in a thousand years, gotta start small. oil paint on plywood, 6x6”
Porcelain figurine limbs in lump of clay; red, cobalt, and black glazes - although I forgot what I put on there, tbh #foundobjects #foundobject #ceramics #2023
Test subject - lava glaze over iron oxide wash #learningceramics @conezeroceramics #ratart
Vase with lost trinket. It’s 20” tall and I think it’s technically a #pinchpot ? Or a #coilpot ? It’s a lump-claylumps-together pot. If it survives firing, I think I’ll stick to a simple color scheme - black, white, red,
Garbage platter 2.0. On the last one the grass was too dark, so I dialed down, and ended up with one that needs more (or different?) green glaze on the grass. Also the squished can looks like a cooked egg white. Not good. Good parts: the apple core,
Glazed the thing. It needs to be darker. If I could, I would change a few things, in the way this is glazed (and in the world that inspired it, obviously.) thanks to @conezeroceramics for being the place where I can learn this stuff #learningceramics
Family brown clay, white porcelain, pink underglaze, about palm-sized #ceramicsculpture