I’m an adventurous wallflower, lifelong learner, lover of art, travel, and the outdoors.

Basecamp for Taisie Design is located in beautiful Council Valley, Idaho. I’m new to this area and didn’t grow up here but my father, a third-generation Idahoan of Scottish immigrants was born in the late 1930s in a white farmhouse next to Mesa Orchards not far from here. It’s sometimes strange how life comes full circle.

Taisie Design gets its name from Glentaisie, one of the nine Glens of Antrim, in Northern Ireland. According to Celtic lore, Glentaisie was named after Princess Taisie, the daughter of King Dorm of Rathlin Island, a tiny island off the coast of Northern Ireland. The emerald green rolling hills in the springtime around this part of Idaho fondly remind me of my first visit to the British Isles and Glentaisie a few years ago.  

After a long career in the field of GI Endoscopy, I was fortunate enough to take early retirement. Now, on most days you can find me working in my studio, or hiking, fly-fishing for trout, and finding new places to explore in the outdoors. I raced mountain, road, and cyclocross bicycles at the Pro/Expert (Cat 1/2) level for several years and still like jumping on my bike to ride every once in a while. In the fall and winter you can find me chukar hunting with my two Brittany bird dogs.