Jobs

1962-63 paperboy, Calgary Herald, Calgary Alberta
1963 cowboy farm hand, Airdrie, Alberta
1964
  • estate disposal, cleaning homes of deaths without wills, Mr. G. Phenning, Edmonton, Alberta
  • fruit picker, Prescott Mott, Penticton B.C.
1965-67 art lithography printer, John Snow and Maxwell Bates, Calgary Alberta
1967 off road trucker harvesting grain, various employers, Simons Valley Alberta
1967-75 rock and roll musician (winds, strings, vocals)
  • Down to Earthenware Jug Band, Calgary Alberta
  • The Chandelles, Vernon BC
  • Trans Mountain Communiqué, Alberta and British Columbia
  • solo, Montreal, Calgary
1968 factory carpenter, Attco Industries, Calgary Alberta
1969- professional artist (represented by galleries in most major cities in Canada)
  • lithography
  • serigraphy
  • acrylic painting
  • drawing
  • ceramics
  • sculpture (cast, editions, carved, molded, constructed)
  • performance and installation
  • mixed media
  • computer graphics
  • Flash editor, programmer, director
1969 road crew laborer, Gallelli and Sons, Calgary Alberta
1969-71 studio assistant to Yves Gaucher, Sir George Williams University, Montreal
taught advanced graphics silk-screen and lithography
1971 lumberjack slashing maple bush and planting ponderosa pine, Mr. Colman, rural Quebec
1971-72 art instructor, Adult Extension Classes, Calgary School Board
1971-75 Railroader, Canadian Pacific Railroad, Alyth Yards, Calgary
  • checker - recording car numbers incoming and outgoing freight trains
  • chauffeur
  • weigh master - scaling freight
  • controller - yard master all rural yards between Calgary and Red Deer Alberta (north section) and Calgary and Field BC (west section).   Managed all traffic spotting and picking up crews - customer service rural yards.
1975-80

Canada Post

  • part-time letter carrier
  • full time supervisory letter carrier
  • assistant postmaster night shift, Calgary main post office sorting crew
  • part-time letter carrier
1976-80 art instructor, Children's Extension Classes, Calgary School Board
1980
  • lecturer and demonstrator of lithography techniques, Open Studio, Toronto Ontario
  • part-time retail clerk, Eaton's Department Store, Eaton's Centre, Toronto
1980- domestic daddio cool dad
1985-00 drawing instructor, Saturday Morning Classes for the Gifted in Visual Art, Toronto Regional School Board
1995-99 fine arts publisher, hand printed lithography, publishing a multitude of artists and subcontracting all lithographic work of Del Bello Publishing, Toronto
1995-97 litho instructor, Box Car Studio, Whitby Station Gallery, Whitby Ontario
1997-99 webmaster, The American Print Alliance
2000- professional artist, painter, fine art litho publisher, master litho printer, designer, Action Script programmer, multimedia director, editor, videographer, domestic cool dad fire keeper