I wanted to live the lumberjack fantasy. Just like in the Jack London stories. ...this was in 1956 ...I'd been in Kingston working in construction for a couple of years. They said, go to Kirkland Lake- they need lumberjacks there. Kirkland Lake didn't need lumberjacks, but they did need miners in the Addison Gold Mine. So I went underground. I drew... as a kid... I loved to draw. My dad encouraged me a lot. In Kirkland Lake I went to the library and borrowed books on how to paint in oil. It was there that I learned about the Kirkland Art Group which I immediately I joined. We had shows around Kirkland Lake and the little towns up there. That is where I really started. I began with landscapes then some interiors. Later on I did some surreal painting like Dali. By that time I was back in Kingston and started the local scene. I did abstracts. I couldn't paint the same way forever, so abstracts, semi-abstracts, still life. To this day every so often I switch. Picasso did it... lots of people do it. It helps your perception, interpretation...