In 1960 at the age of 17, he was the youngest student to be admitted to the
Jan Van Eyck Academie in
Maastricht on a six-year scholarship and graduated with honours in 1966. He studied the cello with Bob Reuling for two years, followed by four years with Chrétien Bonfrère at the Conservatorium of Maastricht. In the summer of 1966 he emigrated to Canada. From 1967 to 1969, he taught drawing at H.B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario. From 1969 to 1976, he was Chair of the Printmaking Department at
Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. In 1975, he established the Master Print Studio “Editions Canada Inc.”, custom printing and publishing many Canadian and international artists, among them
Greg Curnoe,
Jack Chambers,
Ed Bartram,
Clark McDougall,
Walter Redinger,
Claude Breeze,
Karel Appel and Paul Jenkins. In 1983, he became the Chair of Printmaking at
OCA, (now
OCAD University) in
Toronto where he taught until July 1, 2012. ==Recognition==