Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media.

  • Canoe Garden with Wildlife

    I created this mural as a means of bringing attention to the local gardening efforts to bring green spaces into the city. This work highlights the possibility that these efforts will bring wildlife back into urban areas and for us to appreciate the space that we share with nature. This idyllic scene shows a recycled canoe transformed into a garden with plants and animals from Ontario around it.

  • Flowers

    I wanted to create something bright and colourful that would be fun and evocative of nature. Whether it is placed next to a park or alleyway, my hope is that it will impart within the viewer the feeling of being immersed in a flowery forest. Each side is packed with foliage, making it view-able from every direction. I used a limited pallet with a focus on calming colours to help counter the stress of the city. I am looking to present a slice of idealized natural imagery as a backdrop to someone’s daily life, whether it be for an impromptu Instagram photo shoot or a point of interest passed by on a dog walk, I hope it helps brighten someone’s day.

  • Domov Muj/My Home

    This playful and vibrant piece celebrates the art and culture of Eastern Europeans living in Toronto and Bloorcourt Village, which I’m glad to call my home. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for my father who immigrated from Czech Republic to Canada in 1969, in order to live a better life and for which I’m eternally grateful.

  • Uplifting Each Other

    I was immediately drawn to the theme of ‘uplifting each other’, it made me ask myself what does supporting women look like? What are the ways we can support women in our communities? What does it mean to uplift one another and ourselves? In my illustration, I try to explore various answers to these questions with colourful bodies of various sizes that sometimes energetically, sometimes compassionately, move and help others towards a better present/future.

  • Lilies of the Water

    Inspired by the resilience of the natural world, this mural highlights nature’s survival through harsh and changing conditions of our urban environments.

    Like nature, a human life’s journey isn’t always flowing easily towards our hopes and dreams, it often ebbs towards feelings of being lost and confused. This is part of the beauty of life and our perseverance; like a tough water lily thriving in its unique environment. After all, blossoming water lilies have emerged from the mud, evolving over many years to survive.

  • Jungle Boogie

    Inspired by the vibrant, lush plants of tropical climates, this mural brought some much needed warmth to the public during the winter season.

    Painted as part of The Junction BIA’s Window Wonderland, for Antidote Wellness Lab, animated by Mackenzie Bedford. The video animation brought the mural to life with the plants moving about, a magical bird flying into the scene, soaking up the view, and blossoming into a bird of a different colour and flying away again.

  • The Neighbourhood of College West

    In this design of people in the neighbourhood, I wanted to make a busy scene that read from afar almost like abstract shapes and bursts of colours and when you come closer you can see that all of these shapes are people, the vibrant community, out and about on the streets of College West. Using a limited palette, I wanted to draw on my memories of the people I’ve seen in this neighbourhood from the many times I passed by these streets. I drew people of various ages and body types to represent the diversity in this neighbourhood. (Bellbox Murals)

  • Aquatic Garden

    My image is of colourful fish swimming around a floral garden, which I created using a bright limited palette. During this past year of social distance and isolation, I have enjoyed looking at images of beautiful places from around the world, imagining visiting far away places. I wanted to bring this image of tropical fish swimming in an imagined garden of flowers to evoke these extraordinary places outside of the city that have brought me comfort in this difficult year. (Street Art Toronto – Outside the box)

  • Rooftop Garden

    “The Rooftop Garden” was branded, visually transforming the space with bold colours and design to reflect community and sustainability. This project was part of our latest partnership with Seed Guelph, in support of those marginalized in the Guelph community.

  • Our Relations

    “Our Relations” is a community-engaged sculpturesque mural in Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa that fused Indigenous and multicultural aesthetic representing the neighbourhood.

    This was a collaboration between the lead artist Kseniya Tsoy, Anishnaabe artist Mark Seabrook and an installation artist Tito Medina, who are newcomer, Indigenous and refugee artists respectively.
    This mural was funded by the Diversity in the Arts Program of the City of Ottawa and the Vanier BIA.