I grew up outside of Boston, MA, and did my undergraduate work at Colorado College, in Colorado Springs. I got my MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA in Baltimore. After some years of bouncing around, I began teaching at Messiah University in Grantham PA., where I began the visual arts major. I taught at Messiah for 29 years, served as department chair for a little over a decade, and held two successive Distinguished Professorships. I’ve also taught at an American college program in Italy on several occasions. During all that time I have exhibited regularly, and completed several commissions, both public and private. I’ve also written for both academic and popular journals, and edited a book and several exhibition catalogs.

My work is characterized by a love of the expressive and aesthetic potential of materials, and often draws on my experiences of the woods and mountains. I am interested in history of art, and sometimes incorporate it. I think that the “presence” of 3 dimensional imagery is both decorative and iconographic. I believe that all artistic imagery is at its core representational.

I am versatile with a number of materials and processes, but have had things I can’t personally fabricate made by other craftsmen. On two large commissions I collaborated with other artists. I enjoy the process of working with clients during a commission, and developing imagery through that dialog.