The art to me is always about what I see in my own work when caught off guard. To make something beautiful is great and to fascinate or scare yourself is the best!
I have been an artist since I was two years old. My parents really put a lot of work into my creative side. My mom was a teacher and my dad was The Woodworker. While I was growing up he took classes in oil painting with with Daniel Sprick every Tuesday. In elementary school I was lucky to have Dean Bowlby as my art teacher, and I was surrounded by friends who all loved to draw together and share our stuff all day long. I worked later with charcoal and took figure drawing classes with Daniel Sprick. I found metal sculptures and I made one and gave it to my mom.
A restaurant owner who saw my metal sculpture wanted to buy it but it wasn’t for sale. I let her hang it though and customers started asking for them and in two thousand seven I met Peter Calamari at the Royal Street gallery.
