Like his paintings, Spar has coupled within himself enormous intensity with warmth and kindness. He has energy and power, born of living – the ability to move and be moved by the subtleties of nature and spirit. His life and works celebrate a world free of hidden feelings and calculated behaviors. They seem like the wind…move like it; come from it, perhaps. As a successful International artist, Spar is renowned for his ability to touch people’s hearts. The passion of living and the boundless capacity of the heart to love are the continuing explorations of Spar’s work. The moving rhythms and sensuous resonance of his contemporary abstract and representational paintings dance upon the walls they grace. His inspired use of line and form, color and media, transform objects into uplifting imagery, heart-warming for all who behold them. Each piece is an invitation to freedom, to passion, to aliveness.

As if predestined to be an artist, Spar's mother traded a painting with the doctor who delivered Spar in exchange for his services. She was an art student at the time of his birth.

Born with what his mother fondly recalls as "endless creativity," he began painting at the age of two. Even at this young age his heart delighted in the movement of color and textures of paint. He was known to use everything including his own body as his canvas.

In his early school years, he had trouble with reading and other subjects where his artistic and creative passions could not find expression. When he was ten a child psychologist told his parents that this dyslexic boy would never amount to anything! His numerous international successes are a tribute to kids with alleged "learning disabilities."

"Spar" is his birth name. It appealed to his parent's desire for a powerful name and his father's love of sailing. The spar is the mast in a sailboat. In the Jamaican dialect spar means "close friend."

He was born in 1963 in Park City, Utah. He has lived in Banff, San Francisco, Aspen, Rancho Santa Fe, Vancouver and Whistler. He currently resides in Maui, Hawaii with his wife Johanna, their daughter Shanti, and their cat.

His work has received reviews of generous praise and appreciation at numerable international art exhibitions and fine galleries in North America and abroad.

He is a former world professional aerial and mogul, slalom and giant slalom skier and five-time British Columbia ski champion. He has had numerous top 5 results at the National level and finished in the top sixteen at the World Professional Mogul Championships in 1985.

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