I was born in Toronto, Canada in 1941. I started painting portraits in pastels at age fourteen. By seventeen was burnt out and didn’t return to painting until I was thirty-one, painting scenes with people in them which I found far more rewarding than portrait painting. By this time I was married with three children.

Again, after one year of painting, many years elapsed until I took up watercolors from 1993 to /96. During this period of time I saw a couple of egg tempera paintings and was enthralled by this medium. When I moved to Kauai in 1970 I searched and eventually found two books by Robert Vickery and taught myself how to paint in egg tempera. My first painting was of “Island Moa”. These are chickens that run wild on Kauai and are descended from the chickens that the Hawaiians brought with them from Polynesia in their outrigger canoes when they first inhabited the Hawaiian islands about 500 years ago.

I also taught myself how to paint in oils while living on Kauai. I now live in Illinois to be near my son and his family and continue to paint in these four mediums. Now that I am a senior citizen, with my family grown, I can finally devote myself to serious painting.