His dry heart is as light
as his lost cause is just.
-from "Sailcat" by Paul Grant
I was born in New Jersey, and grew up in the industrial stench and toxic waste dumps that formed the landscape of the endless industrial suburbs that lie between New Brunswick, NJ and the Holland Tunnel. After spending half a year starving in Boston Massachussetts, where I attended SMFA on scholarship, I returned to New Jersey, and finished my BFA at Rutgers University, with a major in Visual Systems Studies, a major of my own invention. After college, I lived in Washington DC for nine long and too often miserable years. In April 1991, I moved to San Francisco, CA, and my life immediately and dramatically improved. It was in San Francisco, a year and a half later, I met Beth Scannell, and we soon married. In August 2004, I received my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College. A major milestone in my life, it has re-envigourated my art work on too many levels to count. In 2007 I was invited to teach at Ryerson University, in Toronto, Ontario. So we sold our house and moved across the country. We now live in a lovely home build in 1920s and are settling in well to our new city and country.
On June 22, 1997, our daughter, Elizabeth Anastasia, was
born. She is a bright and lovely child, my pride and joy. She loves music
by Jane Siberry, The Boards of Canada (ORANGE!), Mike Oldfield, and the Severed Heads.
Nothing like a child with good eclectic tastes. She is an excellent artist
and attends the new Crestwood Middle School for the Arts out in Etobicoke.
We also have two cats - brothers - and we've had them since they were
8 weeks old in June 1995. The orange fluffy beast can usually be found
snoozing on our bed and the sleek black one is usually slumbering
on Elizabeth's. They are both totally loveable and utterly useless pets.
We don't really collect much except music and books. We have a rather large music collection- approximately 1100+ CDs, 900+ vinyl records, and about 300 casettes. It's such a strange and intensely eclectic collection of music, that it has its own name, The Warwick Music Archive. We also have about 2000 books packed into bookcases scattered about the house and my office.
If you're still looking for my CV, click HERE.
Thanks for visiting, and I wish you all the best.
HW
