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I am ever changing as a part of the human experience and so my art follows my changes. Doing wildlife sculpture is one way of communicating with a large audience on a common ground. Through these wildlife sculptures, we celebrate the creation of creatures great and small who share with us a world through which we are moving.

When I sculpt, I use nature's abstraction, nature's call for us to identify with her. This comes through in wood shapes, stone fragments of a mountain or other materials as they present themselves to me. Connected to this, and the predecessor to my wildlife work, was my representation of man – mankind, woman, child – caught in our own head by our thought. These human forms I have sculpted breaking boundaries and becoming complete. The character of humanness cycles and merges with tigers, herons, elephants and turtles. They become part and counterpart on a shared path. To see just an eagle in my work is to short change oneself... to fly with the bird is possible if you allow yourself that space in your perception. If you feel this oneness, then I am complete and have done my task for meeting with you.

This is my hello and my statement of truth and humble offering. My path is yours... a path of breathing, loving, curiosity, another step. I love the thrill of growth and exploration, seeing myself and my art evolve, revolve and cycle again. I believe that my expression of art is a gift to me that I share with you. Stores and galleries and individuals may be a part of the blessing our representatives may share. My art is an approach to life. Do you know how many times I have sculpted, carved, painted and thought? Thinking is a process. Good and bad, it occurs. Wood has taught me patience and a level of endurance I could not approach before I first picked up wood.

My art is a communication device, a symbol people can understand like words or pictures of life felt in the heart as well as the hands and fingers. My art is a revealing for me. I do not know what will happen on a given project I am working on and the unexpected happens many times. I love it when I see the perfect plan unravel between my thoughts and fingers and I am like a film developing. My art comes alive, offering the viewer a piece of the puzzle, a fragment of the whole, to the reason we are what we are.