I entered into this world in 1966 and grew up in what was then called Halfway House. Halfway House was established a long time ago as a resting place for those travelling between Johannesburg and Pretoria, a halfway stop. After a troublesome marriage my parents divorced, and my brother and I followed my mum to KwaZulu Natal. I matriculated in 1984 at Westville Boys High. There were two very distinct things which made a profound impact on me in those formative years of my existence. The first was no doubt stimulated by a wonderful charismatic dance teacher by the name of Patricia Clancy. Her energy and passion for the dance filled me with enough belief in myself and confidence to attend dance classes. I seemed to have a natural aptitude and even though we moved to Westville near Durban, I continued dancing at various studio’s in and around Durban. The second life changing activity was dropping out of the accountancy class to rather do art as a subject. This opened a new world to me which I really enjoyed so much so that I seriously considered studying further after school at either a university or college. However, the fact that a career in dance which is considered a short one, changed my mind. I reasoned that I should dance first before following my artistic passions later. It took two years at the University of Cape Town before I got my first job dancing at the Natal Performing Arts Company (NAPAC) in Durban. In my first year there I continued to paint. In those days it was in traditional media such as oils, acrylics and watercolour. I had no idea what digital art was, never mind knowing about computers. My preference at school was always to pursue more abstract idea’s after learning about the expressionist and other movements in art in our theory classes.I remember creating a loose abstract piece that year which included three dancing shapes. It was a milestone for me because in some strange, yet natural way I had fussed my dancing experience with my art. Some years later, after having time off to recover from a severe back injury, I managed to accumulate enough work to have my first solo exhibition at the Natal Playhouse which was where I worked. I was a huge success. I think I must have sold about 80% of my work. In 1992 I married, and my wife and I moved to the UK where I had other smaller exhibitions, still all using traditional media. We moved back to South Africa pre-elections in 1994, which was considered by most as a crazy thing to do because most South Africans were trying to get out. Nonetheless, we were back, and I worked once again as a dancer with the Cape Performing Arts Board (Capab). In 1998 I bought my first computer. After being shown how to turn it on I did a purely technical course and became a network engineer. I now had a daughter on the way and wanted financial security. There was a short departure from the arts but burning in the back of my mind was the desire to find out more about how this thing called a computer could be used to make art. I knew that I had to figure it out, but I also began to realize that I hated the computer business. It just wasn’t me going out to sort out people’s network and computer problems.