#designer { About the Designer
If
there was a song that would typify my life I guess it would
be "On the Road Again" . From the beginning
my family travelled everywhere because my dad was in the
Air Force. Japan, Morocco, Germany, New Mexico, Washington
State, Texas, and everything in between. After high school
graduation in Tacoma, WA, I spent half my college days
at Willamette Univ. in Salem, Ore, and the remainder in
Seattle at the Univ of Washington.
With a degree in music (classical piano) I set out to make a living teaching piano, accompanying choirs and soloists. To supplement that I also studied Veterinary Technology and spent the next 5 years as a surgical technician in California, Washington and British Columbia.
But
a developing interest in the visual world, and photography
led me to the Banff Centre of Fine Arts, in Alberta, Canada
and in the process I immigrated there. That two-year study
in photography proved to be the basis of my visual arts work into the future. In British Columbia I freelanced,
continued with musical endeavors, raised a family and engaged
in several businesses from owning a health food store, to
working with my partner on our commercial salmon boat.
In 1989 I returned to the U.S. and started a back country photographic 4X4 touring company in Sedona Arizona. For four years I taught photography, and blended the spiritual or "inner vision" concepts to the art. Soon my son, crying out for green grass and activities for kids his age, urged us to move to Aspen Colorado in 1993 where we enjoy the cultural and environmental paradise of the area to this day.
Aspen life has included numerous performance opportunities for me, and a rich visual arts arena to work within. As a photographer for the Windstar Foundation Symposium, I was able to meet and photograph many dedicated global leaders in the effort to protect the planet - including John Denver, Tom Crum, Amory Lovins, David Brower, Matthew Fox, Noel Brown, Dennis Weaver, John Robbins, Cheryl Charles, Sally Ranney and more. The associations made there have allowed me to further narrow my web design focus on environmental groups and related topics and to support non-profits with their environmental projects.
Although I base my business out of the Aspen area, I enjoy the weather of Sedona in the winter and have a acquired a number of clients from that area.
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