The 1970s

My life as a clay artist began at my Junior High school in Surrey BC. My teacher Rex Calhoun saw something in me and encouraged me to work with clay, something he was also doing.

In 1972 I moved from home to Vancouver to attend The Vancouver Art School (now Emily Carr University of Art and Design). Sally Michener and Tam Irving were the newly arrived instructors in clay teaching both handbuilding and throwing.
I fired my first gas kiln at the art school.

In 1976 while at Art School I created a set of trophies as a commission from Sam Carter (Instructor- Foundation courses) in conjunction with The Rain Beaux Arts Ball 1976 which he had designed and created. See Rain Beaux Arts Trophies

In 1979 when Three Mile Island had a meltdown I was so concerned about the issue of nuclear reactors I built a tombstone.