Art

Sculpture and woodworking commissions available!

From adding light and life to your home to a treasured heirloom piece to cherish or gift, I'll work with you to create the perfect piece that is design-forward. Please contact me on LinkedIn to discuss.

Blending my passions of tropical plant & fish keeping and woodworking, I design sculptures small and large, evocative of tropical biomes from around the world.

My first large-scale sculptural piece, Rain Chamber #1, is in final fabrication.

      

Wooden boxes, furniture, and cabinetry made with three generations of tools.

      

I'm often asked where I learned woodworking and I always start with my grandfather, who had a shop with table saw, a big workbench, and a drill press powered by an old washing machine motor from the 1930s. Together, we made birdhouses and I watched him fix chairs and make the odd piece of furniture.



The junior high school I attended offered a variety of vocational classes, including woodworking. This is where I learned how to use a band saw, disc sander, and other tools. Before computer-assisted design (CAD) took over in the late 1980s/early 1990s, technical drawing and drafting were also taught, and the skills I learned there about isometric drawing and representing 3D objects on 2D paper has helped immeasurably over the years in my design sketches and plans.



In college, I worked for a variety of contractors and helped build and remodel houses. This rounded out my skill set with exposure to plumbing, electrical, and materials estimation.

People pass, but their tools remain. I have been fortunate to inherit family tools, and my grandfather's mix of hand and power tools included hand tools from my great-grandfather's collection. An uncle left me his mostly power tool collection, which I have augmented with my own purchases.

Explorations of color and texture.


Dirty Gilded Age, acrylic on canvas board, 2025.