I am a multiple discipline artist, drawing from many areas of study in trade, craft, and fine art. I come from a long line of working class craftsmen and tradesmen, which has directly influenced my values, ethics, and aesthetics as an artist.
The work reflects my range of interests through application of various disciplines, integrating metal, ceramic, and plastic into visual and functional comparisons to find the balance of form and function. My work has for the most part been a direct response to my desire to create beauty and function, and I have only recently begun to explore how to allow it a voice for political or self-reflective statement.
I am inherently drawn to the ways in which people interact with our environments, and the intermediary objects with which we affect that interaction. I seek to create objects and experiences that not only alter, but enhance the overall experience of that environment and interaction.
I find a great satisfaction in the inherent beauty of functional objects that withstand tests of time and interaction.
My on-going endeavor is to find and refine the ways in which we as humans interact with each other, and the things that we create, through developing a wider artistic vocabulary that integrates a deeper emotional investment from the viewer.