* no formal art training
* sculpting since he was 9 years old
* Grade 9 education
* quit school to start farming with his grandfather at 16
* apprenticed with sculptor
John Nugent of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, for 1 year (1968 1969)
* sculpts in a variety of mediums steel, ivory, coral, marble, granite, soapstone, elk horn, deer antler, bone, alabaster
* January 1990 started sculpting local granite boulders (brought to southern Saskatchewan by the ice age, from the Great Canadian Shield)
* projects in private collections in Montreal, Vancouver, Regina, Saskatoon, Canada; Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Lewiston, U.S.A.; Trinidad, West Indies.
Carving, welding and modelling are all used with skill and precision to create these versatile works. Inspired by movement and the individual materials themselves, coral, marble, metal, granite and modelling clay take a unique and individual style.