I am a visual artist and teacher by temperament and practice. I am an object maker by heritage and training.

I use concepts, materials and images to make art a reflection of my own treasured life and visual experience. I use hand tools mostly to make very small objects. They permit more intimacy for me, bringing more clarity and satisfaction. Hand tools allow me to stay close to the organic forces of materials: the gestures, proportions, surfaces and sounds of a world we all share.

I believe in the elemental themes of our human experience. The stones, bones, fibers and seeds, the blades, pipes, disks and bundles that appear in our days and our dreams. I believe in the quest for one another. Also the quest for food, shelter, vacations and tools. I believe in visual language, commemoration, paper, string and other simple expressions of memory. I wish for meaning and wholeness.

I wish that materials and ideas of all kinds come together with both purpose and surprise. I wish for a notion of perfection that goes beyond the expectation of regularity and a smooth surface. I wish for continuity of the inside and the outside.

I am a visual artist and teacher by temperament and practice. I am an object maker by heritage and training.

I use concepts, materials and images to make art a reflection of my own treasured life and visual experience. I use hand tools mostly to make very small objects. They permit more intimacy for me, bringing more clarity and satisfaction. Hand tools allow me to stay close to the organic forces of materials: the gestures, proportions, surfaces and sounds of a world we all share. I believe in the elemental themes of our human experience. The stones, bones, fibers and seeds, the blades, pipes, disks and bundles that appear in our days and our dreams.

I believe in the quest for one another. Also the quest for food, shelter, vacations and tools. I believe in visual language, commemoration, paper, string and other simple expressions of memory.

I wish for meaning and wholeness. I wish that materials and ideas of all kinds come together with both purpose and surprise. I wish for a notion of perfection that goes beyond the expectation of regularity and a smooth surface. I wish for continuity of the inside and the outside.