About Me
From a very young age;
In the same way, I was born an Artist, I was also born an Explorer.
Henri Matisse said, "An Artist is an Explorer"
My mother said all of her kids ran away from home, as all kids do. She said she would watch them as they went away hiding in the bushes but never too far away. She said to me, ” Of all my kids, you went the furthest. I actually got worried that you weren’t coming back!”
My favourite thing to do as a child was to play and create imaginary worlds. My second favourite thing was to draw. I would grow frustrated with colouring books because the drawings were utterly childish. I wanted to draw real animals and dinosaurs and spaceships, and so it began. I can remember going to school and seeing everyones drawings of people. Stick people. I thought that is how you are supposed to draw in school so I drew stick people too. That didn’t last long.
My third favourite thing was to sculpt. As I got older, drawing and sculpting and play, with it’s inherent creation of worlds, became lumped together as one, as art.
With drawing, sculpting and play becoming my passion, geography became my second passion and with it, exploring new places. In my mid-teens went on a student exchange to live with a Gitxsan family in Gitanyow, British Columbia. It was my furthest travel from family. I loved it!, enough to return and see the rest of British Columbia in my early 20’s on a Mobile Intensive Learning Experience with Seneca College.
Prolific
Artwork and Prints
The Genesis of an Artist
A Snowmobile Helmet found on a frozen lake
One of my pastimes is to walk on the frozen lake that surrounds my community on three sides. On one day between Christmas and New Years in 1977, I came across a helmet. I retrieved the helmet and took it home. On the helmet was a beautiful painting. I decided I would copy the imagery from the helmet onto a piece of cardboard from a model airplane box. The only paints I had were model paints but they did the trick. I don’t know what ever happened to that painting. I generally save things like that but I’ve moved several times in my life and I think it was lost in one of the moves. It matters not because it was a copy of a work by someone else. I was able to find the owner of the helmet and return it to them. Perhaps I will get a picture of the helmet someday.
It Is a Gift
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