I completed my degree in Education at the University of British Columbia in 1967. There I majored in Fine Arts with printmaking under Bob Steele. I then began my career as an art teacher with the Vancouver School Board that spanned the next thirty-two years. In 1992, while teaching at Lord Strathcona School, I had the honour of being selected as the ‘BC Art Teacher of the Year’. I retired from teaching in 1999 in order to devote more time to creating art, as well as travelling as a source of inspiration.