Since his early twenties Edwin Has had a strong interest in Internal Martial Arts such as Ba Kua, and continues to maintain a practice inIn Yin style Ba Kua Zhang. He also has an interest in Chinese philosophy has expressed in the writings of Lao Tzu, Chung Tzu and I Ching. He attended Canberra University, studying Applied Science hoping to change into Conservation of Cultural Materials degree, but withdrew out instead to pursue a career in Fine Art.

In 1991, at the age of 23, Edwin began his degree at the Canberra School of Art. In his second year, he traveled with architecture students from Canberra, Sydney and Adelaide on a trip across Australia, from Sydney to Broome. This trip provided a brief overview of much of Australia¹s outback wilderness, including the Sturt and Strzelecki deserts and the Kimberly region. In third year Edwin changed his major coarse study from Painting to Drawing Department to follow a more heart felt and liberal approach to Art making under the direction of Petr Herel.He also went on a student exchange to the Czech Republic. Studying at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts for seven months. Where he studied under Professor Vladimir Kokolia, who was also interested in Taoism and internal Kung Fu. It was here that Edwin was exposed to the paintings of Michael Ranny who was to influence Edwin art making in later years. Returning to Australia to graduate in Drawing, with dark romantic portraits.

Since 1990 Edwin has been privately tutored and mentored by Paul Harvey (MA, Royal college of art London), who was inturn trained by Marceller Hempel who studied at the Original Bauhaus 1933(second generation). Paul Harvey is also maintains a practise in Taoism.

After Art school Edwin moved to Melbourne and continued to make art as well as working to support him self. He has worked as a frame making assistant, life model, a model maker sculpting master copies of toys, painting and fitting heritage cast iron baths,assembling and packing heritage brass light fittings. He has had studios in Degraves street Melbourne CBD, East St Kilda, Clifton Hill, and now in East Brunswick. Edwin has been actively in involved in untutored Life drawing culture in Melbourne, by either setting up and running, and or drawing on a regular basis. Starting with his involment with Heidi Titshal at Roar studio's, then the Gasworks complex in South Melbourne, Jitto studio's Fitzroy, Brunswick Arts, and now with North Fitzroy Community Arts.