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Everything about my artwork is personal; how I taught myself, how I practice it and how I feel about what it encompasses. It is driven by passionate yearning.

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In as I graduated high school looking forward to a life in art I was given a hobby enameling kit. That was a defining moment and I have never looked back. Working without preconceived limits left me free to invent unique enamel processes, especially a dry-application grisaille. In black and white I found my means to communicate.

My metalsmithing techniques are also my own; developing as the necessity of concept drives the ability to execute. I see the enamels, metals, stones and other materials as instruments working in concert. The image in enamel is the melodic theme, underscored and embellished by finely detailed fabricated metalwork. The orchestration of the finished work is balanced so the melody is compelling and the supporting variations are unifying.

The sustaining motive for my work remains the same whether the subject is the natural world, the cultural world or a mythical world: to become immersed in the beauty and mystery of the world and sometimes, through my work, to momentarily turn away what is painful in that world by overpowering it with benevolence. Each piece is a story I tell myself while I am working.