I am primarily a painter. For me as an artist it is all about the act of painting. I am recently retired from my teaching assignment for School District #46 where I taught art. My old U.B.C. professor, Gordon Smith, used to say that it is the rarest thing in the world to find an art teacher that works on his own work after they start to teach. I have always tried to keep busy with my own work, Even painting in the classroom to demonstrate to students that art can be a job. My work has always been sort of abstract but grounded in nature. More and more I have been using my camera and computer to alter images prior to painting them.