A love of making art and music came naturally to me as a child, together they helped to guide the path of my future life’s work.
Education: Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California (1966-69). Intensive studies included: drawing, painting, typography and photography, with a major in graphic design.
1978 brought a fortunate job opportunity, I was hired as one of the staff art directors at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank, California, responsible for the creative direction and hands-on design of numerous record album cover projects. Then moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1985, after being recruited as solo full-time art director at MCA Records, Nashville. There, I was in charge of overseeing all album cover visual direction, packaging design and recorded product printing.
A pivotal career change came in 1995, from nearly two decades of gainful employment in the corporate graphic arts world of the recording industry, to becoming a fully dedicated independent craft artist, working primarily in wood.
All pieces are one-of-a-kind. They are essentially lathe-turned and sculpted wood art objects, in a variety of shapes and sizes, some have lids and/or complimentary support elements. Applied surface design techniques and materials include: freehand drawing, pyrography (wood burning), carving and engraving, along with the additional use of various permanent paints, pigments and inks.