Dennis (aka desean, kamiya artisan) was born and raised in Northern Ontario (Canada).

 

Since the 1980s, his work has been influenced by the shapes and textures of the boreal forest and, for the past 25 years, the Pacific Northwest.

 

As an interdisciplinary artist, his work includes digital photography, integral film, cyanotype, photo encaustics, printmaking and 3D printing. Also interested in poetry and the book arts, he has written and illustrated, designed and printed, handmade and print-on-demand books that feature his art and writing.

 

Dennis' work is intuitive, based on experiences, aiming to evoke and engage the viewer through the senses. He explores the interplay of light and darkness, colour,  translucency and textures, mostly through images of faces, hands, bodies, barks and leaves. He strives to evoke notions of time, aging, identity, memory, sensuality, decay, mortality, renewal and transformation that imbue our liminal worlds.

 

He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).