Artist Statement

I graduated from the University of Manitoba’s School of Art in 2020 and have been working to find my muse ever since.  The university provided a fine introduction to media, techniques, and tools to express myself, but I never really seemed to have much to say.  As part of your education, the instructors try to help you formulate what you want to say as well as help you say it, but I never seemed to satisfy their definition.  The time since graduation has been spent experimenting with what I learned, setting up my studios, and contemplating what I am trying to communicate with my art work

I really do not have a deep important message that I feel the world has to grasp, I am not generally angry with anyone, I have nothing to rail against, no great cause that I need to deliver to the world.  This is a second career for me.  I retired from the Information Technology world after watching it develop from punch cards to cell phones, having lived through the last half of the 20th century and have had my share of marching and demonstrating and walking picket lines and trying to force people to listen to me.  There are many things I feel deeply about; justice, fairness, beauty and all the rest, but my time of trying to make everyone see my point is behind me.  Instead I want to create a bubble of calmness, a place to retreat and relax, and above all laugh and enjoy life.  I invite anyone else who is looking for a break to join me in my bubble while I reexplore the world from different angles and try to combine a lifetime of experience into a place that others can share and maybe say “Gee, that’s pretty neat”