My name is Jake, I’m an Independent Visual Artist that creates Abstract Photo Collages that draw inspiration from Artist David Hockney’s Photo Collages of the 1980’s.

A chance meeting with Hockney in 1989 had him create a Photo Collage of me while I was visiting his Nichols Canyon Studio which has found its way into books and gallery shows. My work captures the surroundings of my day-to-day life. My Photo Collages are real, raw, gritty and they tend to just “happen” as there hasn't been a set plan to shoot the photos before I get to a specific subject. Those can range from landscape to domestic to institutional.

People are sometimes included and occasionally the subject.  I’ve been shooting photos my entire life with the idea of creating my Abstract works loosely starting around 2005 with a handful of them being completed at that time. A couple earlier attempts do exist from my days as a Street Artist in 1990.

The means to create my Photo Collages as they exist today were not available until several years ago as I had been pursuing music and single shot photography prior to 2021.

I’m blessed to be able to revisit photos taken over the past (20) twenty years and come across photos I shot with the idea of a Collage in mind and be able to create and piece together one-of-a-kind hard copy Collages and a digital version utilizing Photoshop.