I love to conceptualize, create and build. One of my favorite quotes is, "There has never been a castle built on the ground that wasn't first built in the air."

Being a disciplined, classical, realist sculptor is--for me--the highest level obtainable to utilize my talents and to share parts of my diverse life. I have chosen to sculpt in clay and cast in bronze. Both my subjects and my final medium are timeless...spanning countless generations.

At this point , my major focus is to depict human form in all its complexity, beauty and cultural distinction. I am also sculpting the horse, showing their spirit and strength. Every new creation is an opportunity to learn and expand my skills.

My personal challenge is to stay true to God's creations, evoking "all of our senses and spirit, and imbuing each piece with its own meaning." I create my art to inspire and bring joy into others' lives.

Childhood

“Experts” say a biography should be in third person. Since I can’t figure out who that third person is, I’ll just cover parts of my life that ultimately give meaning, purpose and discipline to my art. Some ask, “When did you know you were an artist?” I don’t think I used that title, until my early thirties. After I accomplished walking-- I started creating, you know, mud, sticks, cardboard, eventually a pencil or crayon came into play.

I also learned how to work and work hard at an early age. In addition to work, by the time I hit nine years, besides schooling, I had already been run over by a car, broke my leg twice, figured out how to free fall from the top of a tricky bar without a permanent concussion, run a knife through my hand building a bug jar, collect rocks and all kinds of creatures, carve wood into crude shapes and moved from rural settings to a city and then back again to the country.

In the mountains of Utah, as a third grader, I fed, medicated and culled domestic turkeys, fenced, dug, built huts, explored and learned to ride bareback. By the fourth grade I was shooting a bow, raiding local barns for pigeons which I raised, caught a calf-- much larger than myself, in a calf scramble for 4H, dreamed a lot and got into mischief, fell in and out of love for the first time and actually got in some time for schooling!  

Life Lessons

Over the next twenty years or so my life was under constant change. Anything I did as far as making art objects, flat or shapes was considered a waste of time by those around me. What I did do was learn to build in my head and with my hands. I worked with dimensional wood, logs, steel, masonry, concrete, welding, leather, rope and pretty much all hand tools.

I irrigated, put up hay, ran a dude string, guided, trapped, hunted, fished, felled timber, ran my own logging operation, and a lot more. I went to college, worked asphalt crews, guard rail construction, steel building construction, painted houses and apartments and learned to four-wheel in the mountains and sand dunes.

I got married, worked finish carpentry, helped put together a breeding farm for running quarter horses, sold life insurance, built and marketed my own jewelry lines, bought and sold picture stone jasper and started my own belt buckle company which eventually became the premier bronze buckle line in the country and abroad. Hit a recession, went broke and got a divorce. Somewhere in the last part of that, I began sculpting three dimensionally, casting in bronze and calling myself an artist!  

Wildlife Sculpture

So, after getting started with a dull roar I had a little down time. I had shown in a good number of top galleries, sold-out my works of wildlife and western bronzes took a deep breath and put together a corporate bronze program with a company in the Advertising Specialty Industry. I did commission pieces, graphic design, and eventually became a sales rep. for a group handling their products.  

Blended Families

About this time I met my soul mate and now life partner and artist wife. We blended, on a regular basis, her four children and my three children, not a small undertaking! Together we have spent the last twenty-five years on the move!

We have been sales reps; together we developed our own clothing line, two different wall décor lines, spent ten years doing high end decorative painting, murals and commissioned art pieces, and raised one of our grand children for the last fourteen years. Over the last five or six years we have put major energy into fine tuning our artistic talents in both atelier study and our own extensive research and artistic creations.

Current Work

The body of works I have now completed represents a lifetime of experience, countless hours of sculpting, research, training, and maximum effort. Anything I set out to do is with gratitude to God and a “No Compromise” philosophy.

My marketing background is extensive as well as my sculptural pursuits. I have over 100,000 belt buckles circulating worldwide. I have sculpted corporate commission works, custom bronzes for the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Wild Wings, Chilmark and BTS of California.

I have worked through many foundry processes, steel die casting, studied welding engineering, executed point ups and point downs, and created many types of internal and exterior armatures. I have studied anatomy extensively and continue to do so with every subject I portray. I am a classical, figurative, fine art sculptor, who has been blessed with a very diversified life.

My sincere thanks to you, and for your interest in my sculptural works.