George Bruce Levine lived, studied and worked in Texas (USA), the United Kingdom and Tunisia before settling in Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. He and his wife, Dr. Margaret Gouin, came to Gozo for a winter break in 2002 and forgot to leave; they have no plans to stay on Gozo, nor do they have plans to leave. Every new day is an adventure.
George first took up pen & ink drawing in architecture school. His professional career evolved from building design towards a specialization in the ‘pre-design analysis’ of functional requirements for highly specialized buildings. This satisfied his innate interest in how people use the built environment as well as his commitment to involving the future occupants of the facility in the design process.
At the same time he developed an avocation in design criticism, and contributed essays on architecture, urban design and landscape to large-circulation daily newspapers, as well as local community papers. These were often accompanied by his own drawings. The pen & ink medium employs the most economical of means, simple lines wandering across the page, to express the lyrical structure of the scene depicted.