Biography

Having come from an artistic family, I started sculpture at a very early age. As an adolescent I spent a lot of time in a local quarry digging up clay and making things for friends and family.

My father taught me to work with wood, building furniture and carving.

In 1972 I enrolled at the Hill Fine Art Center were I studied under the great metal sculpture Orion Hargett.

I started out taking lessons and went on to teach photography and wood sculpture there and at Joliet Jr. Collage.

It was there that I decided to make a life commitment to art although it took twenty years to complete that goal.

In those years I studied the masters of kinetic art and in 1998 decided to channel all my energy into embracing that medium.

I have been very fortunate to have had shows in Santa Fe, N.M. Taos, N.M. New Orleans, La. Houston, Tx Austin, Tx. and Wimberley Texas and have sold pieces around the world.

I love kinetic sculpture because of all the different mechanisms there are to design on from Calder’s mobiles to George Ricky’s conical movement and every thing in between, they give me a never ending pallet with which to stretch my imagination.

To me sculpture needs to be fun, fun for me to design and build and fun for those who observe it.

Enjoy!