I live in North Vancouver, BC and have been a practicing artist for over fifty years. My inspiration is in the nature that surrounds me. Since early childhood I have explored the mountains around Vancouver and then later the Coastal Mountains of BC. Their natural beauty compels me to pay them homage. This mysterious longing for nature becomes infused with my need to pick up pencils, watercolors, oils or an etcher's needle and start transcribing onto paper, canvas or copper plate.This process satisfies my soul - if there is a chance my art satisfies the soul of my viewers, then I have done what I have set out to do.
Sketching in Canadian Rockies, BC
Education
1969 (Carnegie Fellowship) Stanford University, M.A.
1966 San Francisco Art Institute, B.F.A.
1962-1964 University of British Columbia
Exhibitions
2012 Teck Gallery, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
2010 Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal
2008 Earth Art Exhibition, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, ON
2006 Natur und Mensch, Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Cologne, Germany
2006 Hanare Gallery-café, Kobe, Japan
2005 Engine Gallery, Toronto
2004 From Phillips to the Future, J.M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto
2004 Bond University Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
2002 Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver
2002 Imago, Painted City Gallery, Toronto
2001 DeLeon White Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 Galerie Forum Lindenthal, Cologne, Germany
1999 Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver Art Gallery
Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Museum, University of Toronto
Auchenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, de Young/Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Bibilioteque nationale de France, Paris
British Museum, London
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , Ithaca, NY
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
New York Public Library, NYC
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
State University of New York, Buffalo, NY
State University of New York, Plattsburg, NY
Tate Gallery, London
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, ME
Université du Québec, Montreal
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vancouver Art Gallery