[1] He worked as a commercial artist in the 1930s - there are six of Wood's sketchbooks dating from 1933 to 1937 in Library and Archives Canada,[2] mostly of his environs in Ottawa.
He joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserves on 23 May 1943 at HMCS Carleton in Ottawa.
He served in the Directorate of Special Services at naval headquarters in Ottawa where he worked as a designer, then he sailed for England on a troop carrier as an Official War Artist (1944-1946).
[3] When he retired in 1975, Wood embarked with five artist friends on a series of painting expeditions to Newfoundland.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Canadian War Museum and the Ottawa Art Gallery.