Artist's Statement

My watercolors begin as figure drawings of live models and then get transported into various settings and circumstances to tell imaginative stories of who they are or where they may have been. I use dry watercolor pans and a lot of water to build tone and value out of layered puddles of color, and detailed fine line work to bring out the faces and scenes. 

On the other hand, my photographs and wood turning seek to bring out and highlight interesting shapes in my environment. Whether the intersecting lines of a series of arches, an unusual patch of blue sky framed by the tops of buildings in a small town, or the supports lining a tower, I enjoy framing and capturing the geometry of our world. On the lathe, I find shapes within freshly cut logs in a very different way. Peeling back weak material, navigating voids, and finding angles that most highlight the grain within, I strive to find the shape that maximizes the beauty of that piece of wood. Most recently, as I have begun to explore glass I am fascinated by the experience of continuing to work radially but with a perfectly plastic material and trying to create shapes that were never there at all.