Bio
Frank was born in Manitoba, Canada but was raised on the west coast of British Columbia. After completing only one year at the University of B.C., he went traveling through Europe where he met his future wife, Marie. Coming back to Canada he started back to university but soon became restless, so they traveled and lived in Australia for five years. After a daughter, Christy, was born they came back to Canada and he worked in various jobs, finally ending up on Vancouver Island, (where a son, Shaun, was born), working as a finishing carpenter and hanging garage doors. At age 47 he was persuaded to go back to university.
He graduated from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada with a B.F.A. (Honors) in 1994 and from the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM in 1996. Tamarind is the only facility in the world that teaches collaborative printing in lithography done by the traditional methods of working on limestone or aluminum plates. Their output of master printers is very small, usually one to two per year. Since that time he has worked as an artist in prints and paintings, given workshops on printmaking and has collaborated with artists to edition their prints.
Frank is a Tamarind Master Printer who is currently the resident master printer at Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts. Located at St. Andrew’s Mission on the Umatilla Indian Reservation, he works with major and emerging artists to realize their work in the medium of printmaking. |

"Disappeared."
Monotype. Image size 5 x 18 in. Paper size 17 2 |