I have been an artist since my earliest days in rural Arkansas, creating and leaving a legacy of my work in many locations throughout the country. Through formal training and self-initiated searching, I've  experimented with a wide variety of media including wood, metal, stone, pastels, acrylic and oil painting. My work is strongly influenced by my architectural education at Washington University in St Louis where I received a Master of Architecture degree in 1967.

For the next 20 years after graduation, I pursued a career as a city planner in St. Louis and San Francisco.  In both cities, I played a key role in formulating strategies for economic, social and physical development policies. At the same time, however, I was also pulled by the desire to create.  I expressed those desires through periodic sculpting or painting binges or building things.  In St. Louis, my desire to build and create was fulfilled by  renovating apartment buildings.   In San Francisco, it was designing and building my own home.

By my forties, I had achieved my dreams of a house on a hill in San Francisco and a successful career as a planner.  However, the experience of building my home proved to be transitional for me.  The visions of my future changed as I started designing and making furniture for the house.  I began experimenting with layering techniques drawn from my planning experience working with topographic maps and models.  And I found to my happy amazement that the work I was creating had some substance and originality and was eliciting a very positive response. 

In 1990, I moved to the Palm Springs area seeking a scaled-down lifestyle, warmer climate and larger workspace to create.  I bought a classic 1961 midcentury modern house in the Cathedral City Cove neighborhood and converted the garage into a sculpture studio.  I refined my techniques of laminating forms, experimented with different material and finishes and explored the visual and structural possibilities of lamination through a series of abstract forms. I started a series of life-size human sculptures, including my signature work "Rob" (pictured above) which helped me to express the beauty of natural wood.  I experimented with form and structure for functional art works such as chairs and tables.  And I created a series of client-commissioned projects including sculptural installations, waterworks, garden structures and gates.

In recent years, I've begun producing limited edition series by developing techniques that enable me to streamline and increase the production of my art.  This has allowed me to create more works to make available for the increasing commercial success of my art.  This has led to the development of a line of functional art works which I call "The Contour Collection".  Click on the link in the side panel to the right for more information on this collection.

 While in the desert community, I've also tried to share my planning experience and enthusiasm for the arts by participating in public service,  I served on Cathedral City's first Public Arts Commission and played a major role in writing it's first public arts plan.  In 1999 I was on the founding Board of the Coachella Valley Arts Alliance.  I have served on Cathedral City's Planning Commission and the Cove neighborhood sewer/street assessment Steering Committee.  I've also served on the Riverside County Service Area 104 committee and Sky Valley Community Council during a brief period of residency there.

My art takes on many forms:  for functional and practical purpose and aesthetic creation -- all a result of a deep educational background and a strong interest and aptitude in architecture, design, planning and construction.  My work is fulfilling and rewarding on a spiritual level and as a way to support myself.  The feedback I have received over the years has been tremendous and helps nourish my energies as I search for ways to express myself and meet practical needs in an elegant and sometimes unusual way.