Education

• 1965 – 66 – High Wycombe College of Art, U.K. – Foundation Studies
• 1966 – Selected for Student National Group Show travelling major cities in England and Wales – Ceramic sculpture (unglazed)
• 1966 – 69 – Manchester College of Art and Design, U.K. – B.A. Honours
• 1969 / 1971 – Post Graduate Studies – Manchester College of Art and Design, U.K.
• Short film: Investigating how signs and symbols are culturally based and place unfair advantage to those who rely solely on accurate visual language in order to navigate the streets and daily life of industrial Manchester.With the help of a special ed. teacher and a film graduate the film attempts to demonstrate how this iparticularly impinges on peoples with certain disabilities.
• 1976 – A series of silk screen workshops with John Allen Long – L.A.
• 1990 / 2000 – Achieved accomplishment in the major graphics Software Programs for digital imagery,photography and glycee print making
• 1993 / 1995 – Capilano College, N. Vancouver – Creative Writing: Poetry, Dean’s List.
• 1994 / 1996 – Completed a series of  workshops in letter press imaging making, including wood and lino cuts, blind embossing under Jim Rimmer, Master Typographer, Vancouver.
• 1995 – Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC.  Soil Rich as Blood
• 1996 – Photoshop Workshop – Keith Martin 2 Cats Design Vancouver

Practice

• 1971 – Visual A I D, IPPF London – Artist and Designer for a small media team producing visual programs (no text ) to raise a wide range of health issues to 3rd World countries, with a focus towards Africa and how communities can solve many of their own problems.
• 1972 – Face Photo, London – Typographic Designer
• 1973 – Sociopack Publishing Houses, London – Book Designer and Senior Artist, De mystefying without de bunking Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology in the form of alternate, full colour books:  Serious text for the curious culture vulture, original art and photography.
• 1974 – Media Resource Centre, London – Sole artist for a series of large format drawings for an anti drug program funded by the City of London.
• 1976 – 1994 – Long and Llewellyn, Vancouver – Arts / Design Practice with over 300 awards in Canada and USA

Notable Commissions

• Fisheries Canadian Federal Government, Ottawa
• Expo Pavillion representing BC Provincial Government, Victoria, BC
• Artist for commemorative large format poster Expo 86, Vancouver
• Artist for Magnus Multi Media, Los Angeles
• Designer, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
• Artist for Centre for the Arts, Burnaby
• Artist and Designer for Musson Cattell Mackey Architects, Vancouver
• Artist andDesigner for  Durante and Partners Landscape Architects, Vancouver
• 3D Designer for  British Columbia Forestry Commission  Head Office, Vancouver
• Artist for CBC animated credits, New York City
• Package Designer  for Bloomindales, New York City
• 1997 – 1999 – Partner Dream Dead Press, Vancouver – Artist and Typographic Designer

Group Shows

• 1973 – Little Venice Gallery, London – Frottage and Collage, Westminster Cathedral
• 1975 – Best Nudes – Graphite on rag 36” x 24”
• 1978 – Presentation House, North Vancouver – Art After Hours, Environmental 3D   silkscreen on canvas
• 1979 – Conteporary Art Gallery, Vancouver – Drawing   silkscreen
• 1981 – 415 Cordova Gallery, Vancouver – Installation: Flaming Ducks (Rocks positioned in 500 sq.feet space with aqua neon lighting in darkened room)
• 1982 – 415 Cordova Gallery, Vancouver – Installation: Vegas (Life size photographic black and white random portraits of las vegas tourists: Dry mounted and scored as stands – ups positioned with plastic palm trees)
• 1982 – West Coast Show, San Fransisco – 3 panels, 6′ x 4′ hand tinted original photography   graphite
• 1985 – Graphex, Montreal
• Vancouver Film Festival – Art Posters for film Paris
• 1986 – 3A House Gallery, White Rock – Paintings
• 1993 – Graphex Vancouver
• 1994 – Gallery, University College of the Fraser Valley
• 1998 – Arts Council Vancouver – The Book Writ Large, 3D Book (Acryllics on door skins, with audio of original poetry emanating as viewer / reader turns page
• 2006 – Diana Winkfield Gallery, Milton Keynes UK – Heart Conditions (Paintings 24” x 24” on wood)
• 2007 – Bellevue Gallery, Vancouver – Gallery Artist Show

Solo Shows

• 1973 – D’Abreu Morse, London – Blindly following Claus Oldenburg, Scuptural mega size mushrooms, paper mache   Acrylic with B/W photographs of same sculpture positioned near Karl Marx’s crypt.
• 1980 – Robson Square Media Centre, Vancouver – New Design Work
• 1989 – Theatre Gallery, Richmond Art Gallery – Electronic Wilderness, Collage   original Poetry on metal
• 1994 – Gallery Dept. Fine Arts. University College Fraser Valley – Current Work
• 1997 – Gallery Dept. Studio Art, Capilano College – Mixed Media on Metal
• 2004 – Gallery Art Institute, Portland – Attachment / Detachment, Mixed Media on Panels
• 2006 – Ferry Buiding Gallery, Vancouver – Every(where) is Memory? Acrylics   Drawing on panel
• Profiled in Novum Gerbraushgrafik, Berlin – Translated into English / German   French / Spanish and Italian
• Profiled in The Capilano Review N. Vancouver
• The Vancouver Sun: Long and Llewellyn
• CTV individual interview: La Rose: How to work as an artist with a baby in tow?
• Shaw Cable TV individual interview: Print making by Letterpress
• Graphex Catalogues 80 – 93

College Teaching 1978 / 2002

• University College Fraser Valley – Painting, Design, Typography
• Capilano College – Design, Typography, Exhibit Design

Papers

• Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, New York School of Visual Art USA
• Marketing Art University of British Columbia
• Design: Frill or Fancy ? University of Alberta Edmonton Canada

Conferences and Judging

• Envision, Sacremento USA
• World Student Design Walter Jungkind University of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
• Represented Canada along with artists from Holland Poland Germany for international entries for a show on Mind, Body and Spirit