Education	Co-exhibitors	Awards	Collections
Exhibitions	CV of the Artist	Biography	Dealers
Bibliography	Bravo TV Documentary	Film Set Credits	Music Website

During the early 1970's, I became increasingly interested in the subjects of alchemy, mythology and Symbolism. In 1971, supported by a Canada Council grant and a letter of introduction from William Rubin of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I traveled to London and Paris, to organize the first group exhibition of west coast art Canadian to tour Europe. This exhibition, entitled Canadian West Coast Hermetics, co-curated with the late Alvin Balkind of the UBC Fine Arts Gallery, was seen in Paris in 1973, by French art historians and writers of the Surrealist Group, former colleagues of André Breton. One
was the late José Pierre, who also saw my work in subsequent exhibitions and included me in his landmark book, L'Univers Surréaliste
(Editions Somogy, Paris,1983).

My work continues to be published and exhibited internationally alongside the leading historical figures of Surrealism and lyric abstraction, often with the Phases Movement in Paris, whose organizer, Edouard Jaguer, also collects my work.Another noted historian of the Surrealist Movement, Sarane Alexandrian, published a work from 1975 in Superiore Inconnu, the journal he began in1947 with André Breton. My work has also been written about in  Surrealism in English Canada, a Ph D Thesis by Yves M. Larocque presented at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1996. In 2005 I helped organize the exhibition West Coast Surreal, A Canadian Perspective, for the Museo Granell in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

In 2001, my solo exhibition, A New Arcadia, toured Europe, and was the basis for a television doumentary of the same name, shown nationally in Canada
since 2003. It also was the subject of a treatise by Professor Antonio Malmo of the Accademia Tiberina in Rome. Various works also appeared in other Italian publications: including Dizionario Antologico e Critico Di Poeti, scrittori e artisti italiani contemporanei (1997) and Il Volo Di Icaro Utopia, tra sogno e realta quotidiana (Edizioni Tigullio-Bacherontius, Torino, 1998) and in Terzoochio, Bologna (1979 and 1985).

My work has been written about in such publications as Vie Des Arts (Montreal), Vanguard Magazine (Vancouver), artmagazine (Toronto), International Artist (Sydney, Australia) and Terzoocchio (Bologna, Italy). Several pieces have been collected by public galleries and universities, and represented in corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America. I currently have studios on Bowen Island, B.C. and in North Vancouver, where I rent my work to the film and television industry. I spend part of every year painting and exhibiting in Europe.

 Education:
        1962:  Private studies with Chicago painter, Charles Stegman, West Vancouver
        1963:  Night courses, Vancouver School of Art
        1964:  Extension Courses, University of B.C.: Painting (Don Jarvis), Life Drawing (Bruce Boyd),
                   Sculpture (Gerhard Class)
        1965:  Summer session, Painting (Ron Stonier) Vancouver School of Art
        1966/67: Vancouver School of Art - 1st year program with Dave Mayrs

 Awards
    2003: Canada Council Travel Grant for exhibitions in Spain
    2001: Made an Academicien Correspondant of the Accademia Internazionale Greci Marino,  Accademia del Verbano,
              Verbano, Italy
             -Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Gramt for exhibitions in Austria, France and Italy
    2000: Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs Gramt for exhibitions in France and Italy
    1993:  North Shore Arts Commission: Public Art Project, Versatile Shipyard, North Vancouver
    1976: Canada Council Short Term Grant: for Video
    1972: Canada Council Materials Grant for: Painting
    1971: Canada Council Arts Bursary for Painting & Research in Europe :
    1968: Canada Council Short Term Grant: Painting
 
 Co-Exhibitors
        International: Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Alexander Calder, Jorge Camacho, Salvador Dali,
        Adrien Dax, Alberto Giacometti, Wifredo Lam, Conroy Maddox, Rene Magritte, Andre Masson, Robero Matta,
        Joan Miro, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Meret Oppenheim,  Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Antonio Tapies,
        Alfred Wols, Paul Wunderlich.

        Canadian: Leon Bellefleur, Jean Benoit, Paul Emile Borduas, Kittie Bruneau, Marcel Ferron, Roland Giguerre,
        Don Jarvis, Jock MacDonald, Guido Molinari, Alfred Pellan, Ivan Eyre, Jean Paul Riopelle, Toni Onley,
        William Ronald, Jack Shadbolt, Tony Urquhart, Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Joyce Weiland, Jack Wise, Alan Wood.