Tim Haley is a gold smith, sculptor, painter, printmaker and musician. He grew up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where he learned to love the outdoors and worked on small cattle ranches. After studying art at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, he moved his family to Black Creek on Vancouver Island, where they homesteaded and built a house in the bush. He currently owns and operates a jewellery store and art gallery in Courtenay, British Columbia, where he lives with his partner and youngest daughter.