I was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where my earliest influences were the applied arts, architecture, interiors, and public art. These enthusiasms fused in formal training in display and set design. I arrived in Montreal, Canada in 1965 to the influences of Francois Dallegret, and Armand Vaillancourt. I became a freelance Exhibition and Display Artist, working the World's Fair, Montreal, Expo'67. Since then I have lived and worked at the interface between fine art and the applied arts.