| 1943 | born in Dordrecht NL |
| 1953 | emigrated with parents to California USA |
| 1963/1965 | started art study at California State University USA |
| 1965/1969 | teaching degree in art education (Nht) Tilburg Art School NL |
| 1970 | degree in sculpture Rotterdam Academy of Fine Art NL |
| 1969/present | sculptor |
| 1996 | found my old friend Donna O'Gara-Vogel on the internet - she is a web designer and taught me the tricks of the trade - |
| 1997 | registered StIvesNet and started making sites about different art related categories - initiated st-ives/selected-art and invited artists to participate and show their work - SelectedArt has now grown to forty artists with individual sites up to twenty pages each |
| 1998/present | built various commercial sites - some jointly with id3.com - initiated new domains with sites pertaining to culture in general |