ARTIST'S STATEMENT

I was born on the island of S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal in 1955.  I immigrated with my parents to Canada in 1968.  Being at the young age of 12 years old, the biggest part of my academic education was in Canada. 

As a young adult and the society´s need to future planning, I completed my life´s academic education by attending university studies toward a degree in education.  Like most of us planning our adulthood, personal and exterior circumstances get in the way of what we call life, and voila, fork in the road.  I met my beautiful wife of 42 years now and pursued my inner hunger to build and create. 

I chose a path of a hands-on career carrying always my creative hunger in the back pocket.  From 1978 to 2006, I followed a career as a journeyman welder and steel fabricator.  This life´s venture with my creativity in my back pocket led to my passion of metal sculpting.

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During the early stages of my childhood and living in what was considered a third world country, necessity was as much a part of our daily lives as oxygen.  My creativity grew from this, as many a time the electricity would go off for periods on end.  As children, me and my siblings would sit around the table lit with candles in the middle, and as the wax would melt and run down the side, I would pinch chunks of the melted wax still warm and mold it into tiny birds or doves, filled with a fascination and love for nature.