Biography:

I’ve studied and created art wherever I’ve lived, from my birth in Evanston Illinois, through my childhood in Los Angeles, London, and Copenhagen, and my adult years in Northern California, the Southwest, and, since 1999, Eugene, Oregon. I learned drawing and sculpture for Eula Long as a child, and have been painting in oils since 1963. I began learning stained glass from Nick Needham in 1982. Shortly thereafter I made three windows for the Chico Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, and started sculpting with stained glass. My most influential teachers have been: in landscape painting, Jerry Ross; in wood, Terrance Heldreth; in glass casting and fusing, Bonnie Donahue; on the torch, David Willis; and in the hot shop and all-over glass technique, Tim Jarvis. My passions are sculpture and landscape, with subjects drawn from nature and portraiture. I enjoy combining glass with wood and metal, and using a variety of techniques. To me, space is a metaphor for consciousness; I try to be as direct an expression as possible of the natural world. My abiding interest as an artist is the edges between the real and the unreal, the expected and the unexpected. Since changing appearance and shifting point of view are conceptually integral to my work, the play of light and depth in glass continues to draw me to that medium most of all.

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