Hello. Welcome to my web space,

The main purpose of this space is to display my various works online as an easily accessible portfolio. Most of the traffic coming to this site is likely someone I know or have met in person at some time. However, web surfers welcome.

I believe that most arts begin with a strong appreciation for beauty. For me this began at age 5 when my parents decided to move to Paraguay in the middle of South America. There I was so fascinated by the jungle. Vegetation and animals were so much more alive and the trees were more beautifully sculpted than most trees here in North America. It is also where I began to learned about composition although I did not know the word at the time. At age 7 my family moved back to Canada, where I assumed a "modern" education and learning more about things like composition. Composition for me is the one most important element in any art I do. It sets the energy for all subject matter. It has power over all subject matter in art as it does in life. Growing up in Lyndoch, Ontario, I really began to enjoy learning new things and how new things expand the possibilities of composition. In the younger grades I enjoyed visual arts which really began to excel as I exited elementary school. My interest in visual arts bled into computer aided design, graphics as technology developed. Also at age 13 my interest in the guitar began to excel when a brother brought home the first electric guitar I had ever held. In the first year of secondary school a friend and I formed my first garage band using that same electric guitar. Throughout secondary school I studied poetry from various sources. A few friends at school interested me in photography in the last years. By the end of secondary school I enjoyed too many possibilities to make a lifetime career choice. I knew that if I dedicated myself to only one career I would become saturated in it, bored, lose interest, and then want to try the other possibilities. It would be like trying to look at only one part of a painting and not the whole picture. Why waist money on post-secondary school to end up with such a "job"? Skipping that step I got a job which doesn't saturate my life and I've had a few more since, all the while practicing these arts. The newest things in my life now are a daughter and a son for which I have sacrificed much of the time I used to spend with my arts. I do what art, photography, and music I can for now; knowing that someday my children will enjoy their own possibilities.