Visual Artist
I have always felt more like an artist than anything else. I had some incredible early sculpture training as a boy and I coasted on that until the mid 1990s. As my science career waned I started to do more sculpture in the evenings, and then went part-time at the university so I could take classes at local art schools. By 1999 I started to find even medium-sized sculptures physically challenging and began to look at other art forms. Eventually I stumbled across Paul Chizak who taught me how to paint in I way I think as "sculpting with light". I haven't done much with clay ever since. Unless otherwise noted all paintings on this site are oil on canvas.
Many of the paintings were sold, or are with friends and family. I had a gallery in Calgary and Ottawa that sold my work, but the gallery went bankrupt, and a few paintings were lost. Oh well.
Education
1961 Eleanor Milne, Dominion Sculptor of Canada
1994-1999 West Coast Clay Sculptors Association workshops
1995-1998 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. (now a university)
1998-2003 Vancouver Academy of Art (now closed)
Art-Related Travel
2000 New York with Michael Britton, Vancouver Academy of Art tour
2003 London, Amsterdam, Paris, Florence and Rome with Angela Muellers
2004 London, with Paul Chizak
2005 Ottawa, with Paul Chizak and Liza Visage
2007 Chicago with Colleen McLaughlin Barlow