[1][2][3] He grew up in Los Angeles, California,[3] where his father was a Christian minister.
For example, he designed a limited edition of 500 prints for the commemoration of the dedication of the Russian Bishop's House in 1988.
[7] At the Seward Music & Arts Festival in Seward, Alaska in September 2015, he did a mural with 50-60 volunteers representing two kayakers at the Aialik Glacier for the main building of the Kenai Fjords National Park.
With his first wife Lynn, who was a watercolourist,[9] he had a son, Joshua, and a daughter, Courtenay.
[1] After his first wife died of cancer in 1998, he married Bilie, with whom he resided in Anchorage, Alaska and on Whidbey Island in Washington.