His chief lament about the latter is that while loons will come close and look him in the eye while he is sitting peacefully in his boat, they are 200 feet away by the time he’s reached for his camera. He retired and moved to beautiful Lake Miskwabi in the Haliburton Highlands in 2006. Self-taught, he has been painting for most of his adult life. While he’s also worked in watercolour and oil, his preferred medium is acrylic on gesso on masonite. He enjoys varying his medium and subject matter.