I graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto in 1963 with poor marks.

 I had spent 15 months at Fort Chimo, (since renamed Kuujjuaq ) in QC
on a weather station, tracking and recording information from weather balloons,
each with attached radiosonde device.

I transmitted the information obtained to the DOT, Department of Transportation
in order to forecast the weather.

I did this in order to save enough money to pay for attending art college,
OCA, the Ontario College of Art, in Toronto.

During my art studies I also delivered beer on weekends for Labatt’s Brewery
and did life posing evenings, to earn enough to live on, and continue attending college.
My marks suffered.

After graduating I found work in Montreal designing labels for the neck of shirts.
I took night courses at Sir George Williams University (since renamed Concordia)
and put together an art portfolio.

In 1967 the portfolio got me a job as one of the art curriculum creator/teachers
 in a new community college, Sheridan College, in Ontario.

We were five artists teaching in a vacant high school in Brampton ON.
The others were Bill Firth, chairman, Bill’s protégé, Scot Turner, Don Wightman,
Dave Chesterton and myself.

Meanwhile a huge campus was being constructed in Oakville ON.
I also did a lot of book illustration during this time, and through a contact
 from this I was hired 4 years later by the Montreal Star.
 
 I did cartoons and page layout for the front page of The News and Review section,
and often other front page sections, Sports, Business, Fashion.
 
After two strikes, before the Star folded, I applied, and was hired full time
in the Art program at Dawson College in Montreal.

Twenty years later I retired in my early sixties and moved to Cape Breton.
There I met Bill Rogers a watercolourist, who introduced me to the medium.

Subsequently I received signature status from a number of international watercolour societies
including the CSPWC, the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour.
 
In 2007 I returned to Montreal and was later elected 1st Vice President of the CSPWC
serving from 2014 – 2018.
 
I still paint and also write and illustrate a newspaper column
“Observations of an Octogenarian” for the local paper,
“The Townships Weekend” in Knowlton, QC, where I now live.