Biographical Statement
I was born in Toronto in 1946. I was a founding member of Circle
Arts, a co-operative art studio-gallery in Tobermory in 1969 and
in 1970 graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art
in Toronto. I am a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.
For the last 26 years my work has been
based on experiences from extensive travelling. This includes
over 25 expeditions in the far North, including: the Queen Charlotte
Islands, Alaska, the Yukon, Baffin Is., Bylot Is., Devon Is.,
Ellesmere Is., Labrador, Iceland, and Greenland. More recently
I have been travelling to the Indian Tibetan border area of the
Himalayas, as well as numerous trips to Antarctica and Patagonia.
I work in a variety of mediums including; oil
on canvas, watercolour, drawing, etching and monoprint. My images
usually depict specific experiences or places from a trip. These
ideas are often layered with other "memories" in the
land: such as geophysical forces, land and marine biology, and
the imprint of previous cultures.
My paintings and prints are included in over
200 public and corporate collections in Canada and abroad. My
work has been exhibited in dozens of solo shows and countless
group shows nationally and internationally.
I have won numerous awards for my work, including
the prestigious Sapparo International Print Biennial in Japan.
My work and my adventures have been profiled
in many magazine and newspaper articles in Canada and the United
States. I have been the subject of three films, including the
most recent, the Radio-Canada (Québec CBC) coproduction
of the Jean Lemire film, The Last Frontier (the first film in
the Nature of Art Series).
Biographical Statement
