Art can be used to explore things we don't understand, such as life, death and the human condition, chaos and beauty. I use the camera to help me understand my relationship/experience with these things.
In recent years I realized that the creative process is important to me for my well being ...and so after many years I decided to start working again with my camera.
Central Washington State, Ellensburg, Washington: Completed first photography class
Banff Centre/ School of Fine Arts, Banff,AB: Two-year Visual Communications Diploma (on Scholarship) “Banff Centre Purchase Award” - Six week Summer Photography Session Vancouver School of Art (Emily Carr School of Art): 1 year Sculpture Program Art Grants:
Vancouver International Wood Sculpture Symposium - Apprenticeship Canada Council Grant for photography, 1975 Columbia Basin Trust - Major Grant for photography, 2015
Exhibits:
Centre 64, Kimberly, B.C. one person show July 2019
Pynelogs Cultural Centre, Invermere, BC Group shows summers - 2011, to present "Wings over the Rockies" a themed show Spring 2010
Canmore Artist Guild (CAG), Canmore, AB: 2013 Group show honoring the opening of their new gallery
Harmon Gallery, Banff, AB – a joint exhibit with Carole Harmon in conjunction with Exposure 2010, a Banff/Calgary Photography Festival, February 2010
Canmore Artists and Artisans Guild (CAAG), Canmore, AB: “Images of the Vancouver Taxi Scene” – photographs by James McElroy and “Energy in Color” - Watercolours by Carol Gordon; June 1981 “Dangling Conversations” – images transformed in watercolour, wood & silver; James McElroy and Carol Gordon, June 1982
Southern Alberta Art Gallery – Solo Photography exhibit, 1976
Projects: The Burn – images from the Kootenay National Park Burn My Meadow – the meadow just outside my front door, rural area, Invermere, BC The Grandfather Series - images of rock formations on the coastline of Galiano Island, B.C. The Taxi Series – night shift East End Vancouver, BC