PROFILE

"He attended the Museum Art School, now known as The Pacific Northwest College of Art, a more prestigious name he supposes but he still likes the old name better, and the Oregon School of Arts and Crafts. This was in 1984, that he started arting, not when he moved to the Pacific Northwest, where life is mighty fine if a bit damp that was in 1974.

He has been making photographs almost his entire life being influenced in a major way by his father, a Fred Archer School of Photography graduate in 1952.

In 1987, after living out in the woods on some kinda nature trip, eating wild mushrooms, producing an heir, failing at marriage, and realizing that yes, here it was going to continue to rain 8 months of the year every year, he departed for sunnier climes, he beat feet, he ankled on down, he piled every thing he owned in a trailer, hitched it to his truck and drove actually, to San Diego, California, that fair city on the lower left coast of America, where the sun shines, the ocean is warm enough to enter and where the living is easy. Here he bought another surfboard and a new wet suit, here he finally found the woman of his dreams, the welcome home he was looking for, the dry air he was looking for and the warmth.

Here he set up his studio in Cardiff by the Sea, a little unsalted peanut of a town on the outskirts of a greater metropolitan area, where the woman of his dreams hates it when he says that because she was born there and finds it disrespectful of their petite bedroom community. Here he has continued to ART and indulge in Photography these many long years, yes, ART, more than a man's name. Did you know that ART is a verb? Well it is, yes it is - ART!

He has shown his work here, there and here again, in this land. Why just last week he was heard to say, "Hey... Hey buddy..... Wanna look at some feeelthie pictures?" And you know, someone actually did look at what he was showing, liked it and wanted to take it home. He was gratified and felt that he had received validation.

His work hangs in many collections here in America and abroad in the lands of our ancestors. It is his fervent hope that you enjoy these pages and that you BUY, BUY, BUY, some of the ART contained herein. So at this time, he invites you to, if you haven't already abandoned this artist's statement in disrelish, view the body of work, the oeuvre, the ART. Thank You!"