Here's a bit about me:

I'm an Ottawa based painter and former comic book artist. In my younger days I spent too many summers planting trees in the clearcuts of northern Ontario. The broken fingernails and the dust and the blackflies, along with the lakes and trees, the lonely dirt roads, and the big skies, have never really been expunged from my psyche nor from my artistic intentions. To put it another way, one could say that I have the great emptiness of the Canadian landscape firmly embedded in the back of my mind. Then again, it could just be a great emptiness.

During my 20s I bounced around from one institution to another before finally receiving a B.Sc. in Computer Science in 1999 from Dalhousie University. During that time I published several comic books, graphic novels and short stories, and won a Xeric Grant in 1999 for the graphic novel ‘Under a Slowly Spinning Sun’. This period of self publishing is where the 'Aporia Press' name comes from.

In 2003, I shifted my artistic focus from writing and drawing indie comic books to the more traditional medium of painting, working mainly with oil on plywood. Since then I have produced hundreds of paintings, both large and small, and my chronically short attention span has led to a rather wide range of style and subject. While one could say that it’s a wonderfully eclectic collection, some people who know me tend to say that I'm bedevilled by a total lack of focus, and that I'm easily distracted by shiny things.

Here's a PDF version of my CV: Marcel's CV

Here's how to contact me:

Email: aporia@brainmade.com

I'm also on Twitter: Marcel on Twitter