About the artist:

Greg Money has an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario in Art History and Fine Art and a Graduate degree from Carleton University in Canadian Studies.

After working for several years at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the Photo-Archives, he has returned to school for Graphic Art and Design. He works part time as an illustrator in order to feed his cat and expand his CD collection.

His portfolio includes illustrations, paintings and political caricatures produced for the Canadian Aviation Artists Association; the Pinhey's Point Foundation; the Ottawa Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society; student newspapers and graduate theses.

An Artist’s Introspective:

“As an artifact illustrator there are three factors that affect my ability to see objects. Firstly, by building scale model, I can see particular parts and how they work together. Comparisons among various aircraft types illustrate different approaches to designs, their problems and the solutions. Engine parts, belt buckles and paint schemes are all meticulously reproduced.

Secondly, a lack of space. This prompted me to draw that which I could no longer afford space-wise to build. Previously I had drawn details for models but then decided to draw and paint the aircraft only, attempting to reproduce the details, and materials. The trick became how to create the narrative moment. Aircraft became examples of human activity within an environment. Attention to scale, details, and textures meant nothing without a sense of rhythm and motion that implied emotion.

Thirdly, after working at the Canadian Museum of Civilization for several years I came to appreciate various facets of human culture. Working with research photography, I saw how details of artifacts were of interest, and how artifacts themselves are markers of human experiences. Artifacts from the History, Ethnology and Archaeology collections began to make sense in terms of human production. Similar to the aircraft, they had intent, and details that illustrated that intent.

As an illustrator the job is to emphasize those details that describe the artifact and give it meaning. Part of this meaning is also determined by the human value of the artifact. Why was it made? Why is it interesting now? How did it survive and come here? These questions have to be reconciled with the interests of the person wanting the illustrations, and, where and how the illustrations are to be used.”

Greg Money