Raised in what they now call "The O.C.", I got my first taste of Art with a capitol "A" there under the guidance of Bob Alderette, Brian Conley and Norm Tornheim at Goldenwest College in Huntington Beach before getting my BA in Drawing and Painting in 1981 from the College of Creative Studies, at the University of California at Santa Barbara, where I worked with Rick Stich, Tom Wudl, David Trowbridge and Charles Garabedian.?Moved to Los Angeles and worked under the guise of a hermit for several years until 1987, when I simultaneously launched my career, with the show Galen Hansen and Two from L.A., and put it on hold to become preoccupied with the challenges of parenthood. My Hiatus stuttered into being, taking a solid hold by 1990 and lasting until 2002. I moved permanently to Portland Oregon in the fall of 1993, and in 1997 began to re-model an out building on Stewart Street there to become my painting studio.