I have always been interested in art. While in college I took art appreciation classes along with classes involving the study of the human body such as anatomy and kinesiology. After taking classes from local artists in Burbank, California, I began drawing using pencil and pen and ink. Upon moving to Lake Tahoe, CA I began to study watercolor and combined watercolor with my pen and ink drawings. Later, I began exploring the three dimensional art of sculpting. I took classes at UCLA and enrolled in bronzing classes at Lake Tahoe Community College, one of only 10 colleges in California with a foundry. It was at LTCC that I learned the entire bronzing process. After moving to Goodyear, Arizona I began taking classes at the Scottsdale Art School in Scottsdale, Arizona where I had the opportunity to study under Cowboy Artists of America, John Coleman and Orland Joe.

Fourteen years ago I started on a new path by sculpting stone and combining it with bronze. This has been the most difficult artwork I\'ve done.  Working with 30, 100, 500 pounds stones that are almost as hard as diamonds requires the use of diamond saws and tools. Sometimes I will have a stone in my studio for a month, turning it, handling it and looking at it from different angles, trying to see what is in the stone.  How does the color in the stone run? What is the shape the stone will want to take? Then, after I decide on a shape I must decide what bronze will go with the stone.  Will it be a man or women?  Will it be passive or aggressive? Will the motion of the piece be in the stone or will the motion be in the bronze or in both?  The last thing I must consider is that when turning the wax into bronze it will shrink about 7 percent.  I have to make the wax so the finished bronze will still fit the stone. When I finish, I want my piece to draw you in and for you to feel what the subject is feeling. I want you to be able to connect on an emotional level with your piece. If I am able to do this, I have accomplished what I set out to do.

I am a juried member of:

Western Artist of America
Arizona Art Alliance
Sonoran Art League

I am a signature member of:

Southwest Premier Artist
Western Premier Artist
Arts of Estrella

I have participated in over 10 juried shows a year in California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona for the past several years.

My work has received first place, second place and honorable mention awards.

I was the featured artist at the Sonoran Art League’s Out West Art Festival, and the Premier Southwest Artists’ Casa Grande Art Festival.

My art has been in the following galleries:

Navaro Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Mountain Spirits, Prescott, AZ
Gray Leaf Gallery, Prescott, AZ
The Gallery at the Four Seasons Resort, Scottsdale, AZ
The Gallery at the Boulders, Carefree, AZ
Rogoway’s Gallery Turquoise Tortoise , Tubac, AZ
Wind Rush Gallery, Sedona, AZ
Arroyo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM