Victor Goertz was born and raised in Penticton, and Summerland British Columbia and has resided in the Province since then. Growing up in the Okanagan, he developed a love for the outdoors, hiking and camping. After high school, he enrolled in the Fine Arts program at Okanagan University, in Kelowna. After two years, he graduated with a diploma and received the Florence Bond and Helen Pitt, Vancouver Foundation scholarship. Next was a move to Vancouver to study at what was then called the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, where he majored in painting, graduating in 1984. Since then he has maintained a studio at 1000 Parker Street, Vancouver. In 2006 - 2007 he returned to what is now Emily Carr University to earn his BFA in Fine Arts.

Kandinsky was an early influence. This spurred him on to begin a study of the human visual process. Experimenting with shaped canvas, he worked on non-representational compositions in which he explored not only the play of forms, colour, and space within our scope, but the ever changing shape of our peripheral vision as well.

During the 90s he studied Computer Graphics and began work as a graphic designer and animator. He moved on and studied Web Design and worked as a web site designer for an ISP company in Vancouver. During the late 90s he renewed his commitment to his artistic expression. Since then he has shifted his subject matter from the non-representational to the abundance found in the natural world, and brought together his studies into human perception with his relationship to the land. The lifetime love of the wild places of British Columbia has taken him on extended trips to explore the land with pastels and sketchbook. Travelling to the Clayoquot, Carmanah, Walbran, Stein Valley, and other unique places and ancient forests.