Artistic Statement

My challenge is to combine technical accuracy and powerful design with my passion for the American West.

 I want there to be subtle aspect to my sculptures, a depth of feeling, and a profound message. When I create a sculpture of a person, for example, I want you to not only understand what the person is doing, but I also want you to look at it and say, I wonder what that person is thinking.

I also try to get the viewer to relate to the sculpture by focusing on universal themes and common experiences. Whether the setting is contemporary, from the Great Depression era, or from two hundred years ago, I want the people looking at it to be able to relate. Most people have felt happy, sad, alone, pensive, or wistful. Most people have felt loved. These feelings are part of the human condition.

I also believe in the values that built America: industriousness, courage, fortitude, opportunity, confidence in progress, the simpler life, self-reliance. As a sculptor, I am very proud to carry on the legacy of artistically chronicling these values. I do this by telling the stories of the individuals.  I want to personalize them, to make them real, understandable, and timeless. I also want to make them artistically beautiful, just as their daily struggles made them beautiful individually. The American West is the perfect setting with which to express these themes.