I received an extensive art education, particularly in blind contour drawing, when I was a child at the Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Alberta) and evening classes for adults offered by the University of Alberta Faculty of Extension and the Art Gallery of Alberta.

In 1992 I attended Emily Carr College of Art and Design (as it then was) mono print program in Florence, Italy.

I am also influenced by neolithic/bronze age Trypillian pottery of Ukraine and Romania and the traditional linework of Ukrainian Pysanka egg writing.