I came into art in a most unusual way. After spending my formative years in the construction industry in Sarnia, Ontario, working the refinery circuit as an electrician and windsurfing like a mad fool, I realized it was time for a change.
In the early 80s a few buddies and I started a windsurfing manufacturing company just outside Toronto, Ontario. I started doing all the airbrushing on the boards. Each board became a new canvas to me on which I could experiment with colours, shapes and images. I was splashing and spraying paint like crazy, enjoying the part I was playing in creating 
new looks with a traditional technology.
Looking back, I now realize that my airbrushing experience started a creative train that’s been picking up speed ever since.
After painting eleven hundred boards, I began to further experiment with 3 dimensional wooden sculptures. I cut, shaped and pieced together producing brightly painted pieces of wood to create what I called “Art at Extreme Angles.” The binding element between the physical geometry of the sculpture and the colors created an exuberant energy that flowed from each piece.
While working with my “Art at Extreme Angles” wooden sculptures, I also started experimenting with large abstract canvases in oil, heavily textured with plaster and modeling clay to again create movement and color in the spirit of Jackson Pollack and Willem DeKoonig.
In the early nineties I took a quick foray back into the construction trade and relocated with my family to my personal paradise –Wolfe Island, an island in the St. Lawrence, by Kingston, Ontario. During this time, I started to look at welders and steelworkers in a new light recognizing the energy and magic that this medium could produce.
After linking up on the island and sharing space in a large shop with a great “Local old Guy” who I call the “yin” to my “yang”, my apprenticeship started with a new medium – metal - in which I quickly knew I had found my calling. The ideas for my creations in metal started coming faster than I could produce them.
Always conscious of not having had any formal training in art school or design, I soon found that what I had thought to be a shortcoming soon turned out to be an exciting advantage. I could let my imagination and energy FLY freely in any direction they would take me. My creations took on life and personalities of their own, each one having that truly unique look which results from handcrafting each piece separately. I quickly created my own look that was easily recognizable.
Now I’m where I want to be with my family in my corner being both my biggest fans and my biggest critics, letting me test my new creations with that complete honesty that only family can provide.
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