Living Art by A Living Artist

I joyfully admit to having AADD: Artistic Attention Deficit Disorder. (TM)
There are just too many techniques, tools and ideas floating around to rest on just one thing. So my Muse is a multi-sensory cob web, capturing all manner of flotsam, like an overheard phrase, a smell from childhood, the feel of silk, the taste of vanilla. It all lodges in my sticky brain and, eventually, re-emerges into some mind of visible, touchable form.

"Story" is the touchstone of my work. I don't do simple, pretty scenics or Still Life. I need a subject to engage my brain and my heart and, often, my rather warped sense of humour. All my works come with the handwritten "story" that inspired them.

The Artist

I am self-taught, except for two years of Fine/Graphic Arts at a Montreal college back in the stone ages.

Over the years I have vented artistically as a singer in a variety of musical groups (folk and blues mostly) and as a writer and editor for newspapers and magazines. Through it all, I kept having recurring bouts of Visual Art fever. In 2002 I gave myself over to that condition completely.