I was born in Fort William, (now Thunder Bay) North-Western Ontario.

I studied art at the Ontario College of Art, and later at the University of Western Ontario, completing my BA Fine Art at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia), in Montreal. I pursued my life as an artist on returning to Thunder Bay, where many of my early works are in private collections.

While continuing to develop my own art, I have worked as a commercial artist, a house painter, and then after another stint at the University of Western Ontario Teachers College, I taught art in High School for several years.

During the early 1980’s, I left teaching to study theatre design and scenic painting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England, returning to Toronto to work as a scenic painter, first with the Canadian Opera Company and then in the film industry.

By 2005, I came back to the studio to indulge in the sheer joy of random drawing, to drop my bucket in the well, and draw out once again my own authentic signature.

I have continued to explore this vein of expression, mining, if you like, my hidden interior landscapes, connecting the child impassioned by making his mark on the page, with the artist, now playfully chalking in his adult world.

While not consciously setting out with a theme or subject, I find that the transparent layers of my drawings move and animate into shapes and beings, - sometimes, recognizable, sometimes not. My connection with music, which always accompanies me in the studio, is important in the rhythm and flow of my work. Just as a string quartet or piece of jazz can be described as a conversation between instruments, so I play with a dialogue between music and the movement of my hand on the paper.

A constant element in my work is the connection between the evolving drawing and the beat, time span and mood of the music I am hearing. Time is the repository of the experiences on which I draw, time the connection between child and man, time spent in front of the paper to look, to muse, to see, to recognize and to connect.