I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo,N.Y., spent most of my adult life in Cambridge, MA. and now live and have my studio on a small farm in rural Western, PA.

I have degrees from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Tufts University in Medford, Mass where I majored in painting. After graduating I began experimenting with large figurative wall sculpture. To support myself I worked at a Boston gallery repairing large papier-maché and metal animal sculpture. The work was very exacting and I was pretty obsessive about it. This was where I developed many of the skills that I use in my work today. I have been a full time studio artist since 1991 and have been exhibiting at galleries and major craft shows, including The Smithsonian Craft Show , The American Craft Council Baltimore Craft Show and The Philadelphia Museum Craft Show, since then.

The pieces are made from wood planks (primarily basswood and poplar) and various other materials. I use a bandsaw to cut out the shapes, a large disk/ belt sander to do the initial shaping and hand and rotary tools to carve and detail. I like a really really smooth porcelain like surface so I do what seems like mountains of hand sanding. My pieces are all made without a pattern and are painted meticulously in water based paints. I use Italian (Maimari polycolors ) and Japanese ( Turner neo colors) acrylics and acryla gouache because the colors mix cleanly and dry to a velvety matte finish. I draw the details with a variety of graphite and colored pencils and seal the piece with matte varnish.

I sketch on scraps of paper or backs of envelopes. They are the foundation of my pieces but I rarely work from a particular drawing. The pieces develop in the making. I try not to cross the line into overthinking but try to translate spontaneously what Ive seen,felt, imagined or are haunted by.