Introduction

The beginning

The Chicago Art Institute

The visual education

Impact of the Chicago training

The soirées

Setting a precedent

Growing up with art

Influence on painting

Learning more from art itself

The first move to Australia

Rescue by marriage

Wanting to go home

Driving a bus

Work at RMIT

How long teaching in Melbourne

The Adelaide job

Why Adelaide?

Meeting Paul Beadle

Sealed over lunch

The South Australian School of Art

Wanting some other kind of stimulation

Udo Sellbach

Bonding with Udo

Getting Dada back into art

Shaking up the students

Starting an art history class

About Dada

Art history not taught at school

Sparking the students

Confusing the students

A class critique

A language to explain painting

Length of time at South Australian School of Art

Move to Sydney

Reconnecting with friends

The activity in Surry Hills

Gordon Samstag

The Samstag scholarships

Working with Gordon Samstag

I was the wall he used to bounce his ball against

The Sydney years

Exhibiting in Sydney

Exhausting in Adelaide

Conversations about important things

Teaching at Dover Heights High School

Winning a prize

Exhibiting at The Hungry Horse

Packing up paintings

Exhibiting at Gallery A

Some good peope at Gallery A

Back to America?

The time in London

Identified as an American

Back in America

The job at Indianna State University

Doing an MFA

The MFA at Southern Illinois University

Back to Indianna State University

Culling departments

The second time in Australia

Meeting an Australian in Italy

Meeting Rommie

Why stay in Australia

Paint or perish

Moving to Ecuador

Itchy feet

Reasons for so many moves

Constant stimulation is rejuvenating

What type of painter

I'm DH Lawrence

What initiates your paintings

Ecuadorian coloration

Coloue as a constant

The emphasis of everything

Mixture of abstration, figure and landscape

The Australian landscape

An erotic quality

Being an abstract expressionist

Stimulation and influences

Works from the south coast of New South Wales

Distilling Ecuador

Rubbings, another path

Differences from Australian work

Feeling like a kid again

Better to stay in one place?

Rejuvenated by move

Effect of Ecuador

A most unusual culture

Influence of Ecuador landscape

The efect of all the lifestyle changes

No longer an American

Can't understand America

Visiting old school friends

What nationality painter?

Never happy in the United States

The next move

Any more comments

Grateful to Australia

Thank you

Credits