A photography exhibition for March 2018 in Guanajuato, GTO, Mexico
A slideshow containing a number of my Mexico photos played in 2017 on Sault Frames, on Shaw Community TV. It is also available on Youtube:
I’m mainly a potter. But the love of pattern and texture that leads me to unique surfaces on clay spills over into other areas outside the studio. I spend a lot of time walking around Lake Superior and my Echo Bay home, and spend a good part of my year in central Mexico, all of which seem to keep my camera busy. All these areas are beautiful and interesting in different ways, but pattern and texture run through all three.
Peruse the galleries from the different areas or read more about me below. Or open my pottery site (in a different window).
Toward the end of a long and very satisfying career as a Professor of Psychology at Algoma University, I returned to a love of ceramics from university days. I studied psychology as a career, but used many of my university courses to study my other love, art in all its various forms.Working in the studio became a greater and greater obsession, and when I retired I became more or less a full time potter, displaying my work in various art shows and multiple galleries throughout Northern Ontario and areas around Toronto.
When I wasn’t in the studio, chances are I was roaming the shores and inland trails along the Eastern shore of Lake Superior. And retirement allowed me to live 4-5 months (winter months, of course) each year in the mountains of Mexico. There I also started spending more time with my life-long interest in photography, roaming the incredibly colourful streets with my camera, taking in vistas and details of the architecture. Carrying a camera made me see and appreciate so much more, because my eyes were always open, searching.
So now I spend the winter months editing and printing a year’s worth of photos, and constantly learn new digital techniques to enhance both current and past photos. Then in the spring I return to the studio and become mainly a potter once more.