Jaded Dragon Studios is a small art house producing a wide variety of artwork including illustration, sculpture and graphic novels. We are aiming to publish our work within the next year and a half weither by our own means or through an outside publisher. Any success we attain we plan to use towards helping other fellow artists we know that also should be seen. Currently JDS house thes artists:

You may know him better as Pablo, yet his parents named him Paul. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario; Paul moved to Burlington when he was eighteen where he has resided since. All throughout secondary school he took art courses and even sold the odd piece here and there. Paul drew illustrations for the Yearbook during his sophmore and senior years and recieved the Guy Dickie Award for achievement in art. After a lengthy pause Paul returned to school and attended Sheridan Institute, taking Art Fundamentals followed by Illustration graduating in 2001. Paul has done illustrations for the Hamilton Board of Education and several newspapers. He has also been commissioned for a wide variety of projects including mascot creation, graphic design and anatomical drawings. Presently he is pursuing publication in the world of graphic storytelling and has dreams of being responsible for one twisted cartoon or another. Pauls influences include Berni Wrightson, Chris burns and Brian Bolland. His choice of reading material is always changing from day to day but he really gets a kick out of the darker stuff.

Born in South Carolina, in Febuary of 1974 and after a two and a half year hiatus on the beaches of Puerto Rico, Lara was finally brought to Canada. Living in several different locations including The Beaches in Toronto and Gildwood her family ultimately took up residence in Burlington when Lara was nine. Lara has always been a passionate artisan and has tried her hand at dozens of mediums throughout her career. These include silversmithing, jewelry-making, screenprinting, stained glass, printmaking and woodworking. However Lara tends to return to painting and paper-mache to fully express herself. All throughout secondary school she took advanced art courses and sold paintings and jewelry. She recieved her OSSD in 1992. In 1999 she attended Sheridan Institute for Crafts and Design. there she fell in love with clay and has since added the medium to her array of talents. She has been a member of the Sculptors Guild at the Burlington Art Center and has taken classes there in clay and photography. Lara has been commissioned numerous times for paintiings and sculptures. She is also a fiendish writer and the author of seven as of yet unpublished graphic novels. Lara cites her favourite artists as Salvador Dali, Renior, Edward Gory, and H. R. Gieger. Her lterary tastes run from the Dark Tower series by Stephen King (best books ever!) to kids books like The Gruffalo and Sticky Burr.