“I always had the facility for drawing and throughout grade school and secondary school, I was the school artist so to speak. I drew the cover for the yearbook every year or three years of my five years in high school. Banners. I was the Vancouver Public Library artist. I did posters for puppet shows and things like that. Then I also worked as later on a flora and fauna illustrator for the British Columbia government, so I illustrated a lot of the bears or slugs or whatever, snakes for these brochures that you could find on BC Ferries. So I did a lot of… it wasn’t art but it was a kind of substitute for art, so to speak. In grade, I guess it was Grade 6 or 7, I was interested in art but I had a teacher and he thought that my work was always too odd. He’d ask everyone to draw a horse. And I would draw a horse that was very strange – it’d be not quite a horse. It would be have a T-Rex head or something else. And he thought I was just too off. Right. And so he actually told me in the end of Grade 6, I don’t think art is for you.”
Art & Influence
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Insert image of Early work from either Vancouver public library, or Vancouver Ferry Flora and Fauna brochure.