Art

Sculpture and woodworking commissions available!

From adding light and life to your home to a treasured heirloom piece to cherish or gift, I'll work with you to create the perfect piece that is design-forward. Please contact me on LinkedIn to discuss.

Blending my passions of tropical plant & fish keeping and woodworking, I design sculptures small and large, evocative of tropical biomes from around the world.

My first large-scale sculptural piece, Rain Chamber #1, is in final fabrication.

Wooden boxes, furniture, and cabinetry made with tools from four generations of my family.



I'm often asked where I learned woodworking and I always start with my grandfather, who had a shop with table saw, a big workbench, and a drill press powered by an old washing machine motor from the 1930s. Together, we made birdhouses and I watched him fix chairs and make the odd piece of furniture.



The junior high school I attended offered a variety of vocational classes, including woodworking. I learned how to use a band saw, disc sander, and other power tools.

Before computer-assisted design (CAD) took over in the late 1980s/early 1990s, technical drawing and drafting with pencils and T-squares were also taught, and the skills I learned about isometric drawing and representing 3D objects on 2D paper has helped immeasurably over the years in my design sketches and plans.



In college, I worked for a variety of contractors and helped build and remodel homes. This rounded out my skill set with exposure to plumbing, electrical, drywall, cabinetry, and materials estimation.

People pass, but their tools remain. I have been fortunate to inherit family tools, and my grandfather's mix of hand and small power tools included hand tools from my great-grandfather's collection. An uncle left me his power and hand tool collection, which I have augmented with my own purchases.

Explorations of color and texture.


Dirty Gilded Age, acrylic on canvas board, 2025.