My love for gourd art stems from my horticultural interests coupled with my desire to produce a functional as well as decorative product. To briefly describe my work, I pencil a design onto a gourd surface which is used as [...]
History and the decorative arts merge in my art form. An ingrained appreciation of the art of all the worlds civilizations and especially the early American lifestyle is the core of my being. My floorcloths are a modern recreation of [...]
Jumbo Bottom Barrel Works designs and builds reclaimed furniture from retired wine barrels acquired from local wineries. In a 294-sq-ft woodshop, barrels are disassembled by hand into the basic components; staves, barrels-heads, and hoops. The wooden staves and barrel-heads are [...]
My work explores avenues to presence, the endless details in the natural world that surround us and the inevitable reverence that rises in the face of beauty. I utilize many materials including precious and non precious metals, resin, and found [...]
Working over wooden molds, in the method of the Shakers, my baskets are traditional in shape and materials. I weave both Shaker reproductions in ash and traditional, utilitarian baskets of reed. Native hardwoods such as ash and oak are used [...]
