Joe is a self-taught artist. He began carving in 1974 and since then has produced many yellow and red cedar wall carvings, talking sticks, totem poles, masks, and rattles. Joe recently completed a course in Advanced Design with Robert Davidson, and he worked with George Rammel at Capilano College on bronze casting techniques, in 2003. Beginning in 2007, Joe started to create carved and painted bentwood boxes of all sizes for various corporations in and around Vancouver.