Watching storm patterns made him highly aware of the ever-changing cloudscape of a prairie sky, and the fast-moving thunderclouds of a hot midsummers day rainstorm. During June, July, and August Jeff would be up early and out of the house on his bike
spending most of every day occupied in outdoor play in the farm fields, woods, and country roads around his family home.
Jeff would not have known this then, but his
boyhood adventures spent discovering the countryside would form an inner eye for detail and colour that became the signature style of his artwork today.
