Growing up in Toronto, I always drawing. As a child, animals are my favorite subject. My parents were very encouraging, and when I was about ten years, they arranged for me to spend time with a wonderful artist named Ralph Abrams. He was a painter, sculptor and animator who was a fan of experimentation with "the new situation." I occupy a lot drawing madly Saturday afternoons at the museum, or sculpture in his studio. Sometimes, Ralph and I just hang out with all the other artists in the building and that shows me how they created their art. Even then, I knew that I was going to make art my career would not be my life.
In my teens I was accepted at a special school of the arts in Toronto, where I studied life drawing, color theory and art history. I hunger for maximum practical experience with the largest number of different media as I could. By the time I graduated there was nothing that I had not tried. But I had not yet found my own style. He experimented with everything from the picture of the wildlife in realistic watercolor, aggressively expressed abstract oils. I even briefly fell in love with the technical illustration. (For an artist, I can be a very rational person, and I liked the accuracy of the same.)
Fresh out of art school, I stepped sideways in advertising. About 250 local, national and international creative awards later rose to the position of Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi, Canada. But the hours were brutal and regrets every day that passes that I got home too tired to express myself through my art. Soon it is time to make a drastic change. As he returned to full-time pedestal. Finally, I built a web site as a virtual gallery to show my work. It is very gratifying to receive positive feedback from people living in a world away. On any given day, people in Tokyo, London and Rio drop by my site to look around. For some reason, I have discovered that my pictures are highly valued in South America. I suppose it must be bold, vibrant colors. And best of all, the Internet is where Glyn Washington, Washington Green, discovered my work.
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