Socially he was a part of a group of socialist school students, but would later change adherence to Moral Re-Armament.
He took his examen artium in 1945, and also had unfinished studies at the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry.
His media career started as subeditor of Ungdom in 1945, and in 1948 he was hired in the London correspondent's office of Morgenbladet.
He wrote books about many artists: Kai Fjell (1977), reissued 1990), Jakob Weidemann (1978, 1986), Ernst Neizvestny (1984, translated to Swedish and English) and Øistein Thurman (1989).
Fra liv og presse (which he also illustrated) were issued in 1987, and the personal story Blå skygge came in 1996 shortly before his death from cancer.