Hi, I’m Patrick!

I'm an artist, illustrator, writer, and maker. Basically, I just make things (up).

Once upon​ a time, I was a seat filler on Canadian Idol (yes, it was a thing) and I was paid in subway tokens. After that, I blowdried the armpits of dancers on a Canadian kid's TV show (Four Square, anyone?).

Don't forget my time wrangling audiences for the Red Green Show and doing a thousand different things at Country Music Television (CMT)!

Then, I taught grades 2/3 and 5/6 for many, many years.

Now? I'm raising four kids and making art full time, from my garden studio in Prince Edward Island (it’s surrounded by gardens, chickens, and ducks!) I'm an Islander by Choice, moving here with my family after dreaming for too long and realizing during the pandemic that life is too short to wait until retiring to do what you love.

​I also own Creative Rebel Studio, where I work with kids and adults to help them find their creative voices and build their skills as artists. The front of the studio is my art gallery, where you can see my work and purchase products that I've created.​​​

I learned about storytelling, both with words and visually (in pictures), through rigorous, daily practice, reading (a lot) and studying television production at Toronto Metropolitan University (when I was there, it was known as Ryerson University, but has since been renamed for good reasons).