Whether watching the sun set behind forested mountains, or kayaking along the glittering coast, I always try to experience the moment fully. Letting my thoughts fill with the unique beauty of each journey, I endeavor to bring these impressions home. For as long as I can remember, I have had that kind of passion with nature. In college I studied art and ecology, disciplines that only deepened my connection with, and reverence for, this beautiful planet. Through the pieces I create as an artist, I strive to impart this understanding, and give others that same sense of wonderment. 

      In this way, my creative process truly begins in the forest where I personally collect each piece of wood―an ancient form of Ponderosa pine. The elegant symmetries found in the natural patterns of the wood and in the discipline of composed art captivate me. Blending the two, I work intuitively, to produce organically-inspired sculpture. One of my childhood memories finds me taking a piece of paper and balling it up. Unfolding it, I would use the patterns in the creases to spark my imagination for drawings. I use the wild shapes in these unusual trees in the same way. And because I integrate the unique forms in each piece of wood, every sculpture is truly one-of-a-kind.

     During the sculpting process I heat-treat the unfinished sculpture, ensuring eradication of any incidental pests. In some cases, molds are taken from the more interesting shapes, and resin prototypes constructed for casting in metal. It can take hundreds of hours to perfect a medium-sized sculpture, and my production is limited to only a handful of finished pieces each year.

     Just as clouds reveal forms and evoke feelings unique to their individual beholders, so (it is hoped) my sculptures will do the same—connecting us all, through art, to each other and to our amazing world.