My earliest memory of wanting to be an artist happened when I was five years old and my kindergarten teacher held up my drawing as an example for the rest of the class to follow. As I grew up, making art was always an important part of my life and I began as an acrylic/watercolor painter, but was introduced to stone sculpture in 1979 while attending the Art Academy of Cincinnati and found it to be the medium for which I was best suited.
A native of Cincinnati, my studio is located at the Pendleton Art Center in the Over-the-Rhine area in Cincinnati. Bas-relief sculpture carved in Indiana limestone is the work for which I am best known. Indiana limestone is found on buildings throughout Cincinnati and Ohio and therefore fits in with original architectural designs.
Using chisels and a pneumatic hammer I employ Old World stone carving techniques and combine simplified, figurative, sensual forms with a variety of textural surfaces to create contemporary design and form. Nature related subject matter is a motif that has inspired my bas-relief work for many years.
Nature represents the flow of life. Often narrative, I strive to have my artwork make a physical, visual, or emotional connection with the viewer.
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