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Biography
I was born in upstate New York and lived in South Carolina and in Spain and Switzerland in my youth. This upbringing exposed me to different ways of life. In Europe in particular, art as a part of everyday life became important to me. I have always believed in a multidisciplinary lifestyle, and my chosen career in geology was a natural flow with this belief. Like geology, the creation of glass works involves quite a bit of science, art and intuition. Superficially, it was geology that led me to my wanderings in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana… On a deeper level, my chosen adult home was a search for freedom, self-expression and Nature. While still involved in the geologic profession, making glass has become the largest part of my life.
I am fortunate to have an ample work space, a few steps from my home on the Gallatin River in Bozeman, Montana. When I am not working, I fish, hunt birds with my German Shorthair (my son named her Finn), hike, or travel to places like Cambodia or Sri Lanka, or to my wife’s birthplace in the lovely and naturally artistic city of Oaxaca. I admit to being attracted to a million pursuits. It seems to be a part of modern life!
Artist’s Statement
My work is comprised primarily of glass formed with processes that include fusing, casting, and lamp working, sometimes combined in the same piece. The technical aspects of glass art are intriguing and inspiring to me.
Glass as an artistic medium interests me because it represents both permanence and fluidity, because it is a mysterious substance and one which represents ancient traditions, and because it both transmits and reflects light in interesting ways as a three dimensional material. My pieces are never static because they change constantly with the changing light of the day.
My work is largely abstract, but is influenced by themes from the cosmos and from nature. Some of my pieces are inspired by cosmic phenomena such as galaxies, while trees and rocks and geological patterns are on my mind in other pieces. Spirituality and the mystery of existence are often in my thoughts while I work. I am driven to share my view of the world with others through my art.