In 1974, soon after receiving a Fine Arts Degree from college, I found a discarded blast furnace which, after rebuilding it, began my days in sculpture.  The next fourteen years were spent casting metals for jewelry and abstract bronzes for myself and others, applying for grants, participating in art shows, moving a lot, and working numerous jobs to supplement my income.  In those days there was a sizable and supportive artist community that existed in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was an accepting and nurturing atmosphere of creativity and camaraderie wherein it seemed anything was possible.  For me, that era still shines through in these abstract bronze sculptures that reflect the optimistic whimsey of those days.

During the 1980s, this community of artists banded together to resolve their looming problem of displacement by developers repurposing the downtown warehouse spaces into condominiums.  We forged ahead, and five years later those extensive endeavors established the Lowertown Lofts Cooperative. Completed in 1985, it has evolved from a National Pilot Program, and today continues to provide artists with affordable living/working spaces.  Inspired by this new living environment we had created, along with a new “Wearable Art” fashion movement, I developed a weightless and durable, leather-like, cast-able fiber material, and used it to produce Card Cast Designs. I continued to market this line of colorful,  hand-painted, wearable and frame-able “artwear” after moving to Arizona in 1988.  The line later expanded to include simpler designs that I named RagGems.

The 1990s was a decade of continuing education.  After earning an Electro-Mechanical Drafting degree, and sometime later, a Certificate of Multimedia Production, I created See Graphics, doing architectural and graphic arts projects.

By 2000, I was stunned by the awesome potential for oil paint to produce a crisp, clean, luminous color effect. Achieving a level of proficiency with this medium has since been my aspiration. These practice pieces are my Recent Work.  Portfolio 7 is forthcoming and will be called Desert Portraits.

Thanks so much for your interest in visiting my website. I hope you will return to check out my progress in time.