CURRENT MISSION

To find my current mission.

ABOUT ME

My home, family and friends are in Peterborough, Canada, but it has always proved a difficult place for me to earn a living. So I frequently travel abroad to pursue my stained glass profession.

My travel tends not to be of the vacation variety. I prefer to move to a place, work there, live there until it becomes home or until loneliness drives me back to my people.

In recent years I've worked for studios in Ireland, Germany, the U.S. and Canada. As a more-or-less impoverished artist, I can only afford to travel if I go to work when I get there, but I've found that's the best way to learn about a place.

I'm 58, but tend to hang out with younger folk.

PHILOSOPHY

So many couches, so little time.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am, I surf.

兴趣

Most of my interests involve the intake or output of art. I love books, live music, theatre, dance, galleries. I give and take classes in various artforms. These interests, and the need to make a living, draw me to cities. I really prefer the country though. Water and trees make me happy. Swimming, canoeing, camping, walking, bicycling.

• arts
• books
• photography
• dancing
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• live music
• canoeing
• camping
• swimming

音乐、电影和书籍

MUSIC: Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Taj Mahal, Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor, Simon and Garfunkel, U2, J.J. Cale, Janis Joplin,... MOVIES: Stanley Kubrick, David Lean, Mike Leigh, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Louis Malle, Wim Wenders, Michael Curtiz, Charlie Chaplin,... BOOKS: Annie Proulx, J.D. Salinger, Roddy Doyle, Charles Bukowski, Tim Winton, Herman Hesse,...

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

This is going to have to wait for a face-to-face meeting, preferably over a beverage.

教，学，和分享

I love to teach, learn, share. If facilities permit, I can teach you stained glass, photography/darkroom, art/drawing/painting, carpentry/construction. I'm good at reading stories.

I'd love it if someone could teach me some computer stuff, like help me load some photos of me and my art. I'm hopeless.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I can help with home renovations.

I cook and clean dishes.

我游览过的国家

Algeria, Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Iceland, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Nigeria, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States

我居住过的国家

Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom, United States