About the Artist
I was born in St John, New Brunswick but have lived for most of my life in Toronto, Ontario. I have been drawing and painting using various media since early childhood and I fondly remember my father bringing pads of writing paper home from work for me to use. From those first childhood scrawls, my motivation has been to capture in a picture that which I found exciting, dramatic or otherwise exceptional ...something that, for a moment, raised my life above the ordinary. Now, as an artist, I want to share those moments with the viewer.
In essence, this is an attempt to capture time in a bottle. As a little boy, I first found those moments in depictions of sporting events but as I grew older more subtle but no less significant qualities were found in the faces of unique people or in a momentary quality of light on the landscape. And yet, after a lifetime of playing and watching sports, I still find the crucible of competition to be a deep well of excitement and emotion.
From time to time, I have been asked, "Where did you train?" The answer that I give is, "...many years in the school of trial and error." There are many artists, both historic and contemporary, whose work has inspired me and, without doubt, have had some impact on my style of painting but the best description for me is "self-taught". I have had some formal training in the form of private lessons when I was in high school and studies of fine art and freehand drawing in the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto. I continued to draw and paint while I pursued a career in construction management but now that I have retired, I have the time to devote myself to art both as an artist and an enthusiast.
Through the years, I have worked with oil paint and both chalk and oil pastels but I currently work with acrylic paint because of its extreme flexibility and permanence. My paintings range in size from small studies to canvases up to 24"x36". My work is held in collections in Canada, the United States, Great Britain and Taiwan.
