s a child, I would sit beside my father and watch him paint. He would buy paint by number sets for me and I would paint with him but I wasn't able to paint like hIm. I grew up spending much of my time at out door arts and crafts shows with my father and his friends who painted and created fine crafts. My father was also a neon tube bender by trade and I would hang out with him in his shop. I loved the glowing vibrant colors of the neon. I think it is why I am so drawn to dichroic glass whose use is a major component of my kaleidoscopes and jewelry. Little did I know during those formative growing up years that I was learning lessons about color, light and form that would define my own work as I began to create stained glass in the early 80¹s. In 1985, I discovered contemporary kaleidoscopes and directed my work exclusively on kaleidoscopes until 2000.

n 2000, a growing interest in jewelry shifted the direction of work. Drawing from techniques learned from attending many classes and workshops in glass fusing, lampworking, sandblasting and metalsmithing, the jewelry is a compilation of many different inspirations, concepts and techniques learned over the past twenty years.

he focus of this website is my wearable art jewelry. Each piece carries a connection to past work that becomes a common thread for future work. Even with this common thread, each piece evolves from its predecessors as they all are reflections of myself as I continue to change and grow.