Educated in the biological sciences, I spent a large part of my life examining life through a microscope, looking deep within to see a world often lost to others.  The sciences, however, didn’t quench the thirst for creative expression and, after 10 years, I left my consulting practice to successfully pursue oil painting as a full time career. It is through a class in kilnforming, that I discovered the thrill of glass as a creative medium. I have since studied with some of the world’s top contemporary glass artists as well as attending Pilchuck Glass School.

Glass is a technically challenging medium which satisfies my scientific thought processes while allowing the exploration of abstracted themes in nature that creatively excite me. Be it a river’s edge, the intricacies seen through a microscope or a camera’s lens, or the depths of the ocean, my work is about close examination of the wonders that lie just out of our everyday vision.  The scale of the work ranges from intimate hand held delicacies to wall-sized installations, and functional through architectural art.

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