Greetings friends and welcome to my on-line portfolio. The purpose of this blog is to share with you my creative passion.
The images on this site are some of the pieces I've made throughout the years. Claude, the deer sculpt, is an amalgam of wood, iron, and hidden fasteners. I believe it is my greatest and truest work to date. The antlers took me a blissful day and a half to create. The rest of it was a painstaking 6 months. The deer weighs about 45 or 50 lbs. and is hollow.
My theatrical works are some of the products of 4 years in the props and model making business. Three of those four years were spent at the Rodney Gordon studio (NY,NY). There, I discovered a whole other world of materials and processes for creating 3D objects. My duties there were to communicate with costume designers and interperate often inarticulate sketches into physical reality. My goal was to articulate what the designers could not, to a level that left several Tony award winning designers in awe.
In 2006 I left the theatre world in order to dedicate more time to my personal and creative development. After doing so, a marvelous thing happened. I had been wanting to draw for quite a while. I had been drawing steadily at work for the past few years, but those drawings were centered around measuring, creative problem-solving, and the interpretation of somebody else's pre-concieved ideas. I just wanted to draw; no measuring, no pre-concieved ideas, just to relax, just to feel the paper with the pencil. I began doing so; just moving the pencil around the paper in carefree, meandering exploration. For eight hours I did this; strenghthening some lines, leaving others alone, shading where I wanted to, where it felt right to, and never working on one area for longer than I felt like. It felt good, and after a while I began to see imagery among the lines and the shading. There was a sun woven into the landscape, a female form, and an ever watchful eye. These were the things I used to draw before my formal art studies led me away from that path. At about the eighth hour, I stepped back to look at what I had done and it hit me; It felt like finding something precious that you've been searching for for a long time. It was me: my natural vision on paper; enhanced by my fine art studies. Since then I have created dozens of drawings and several paintings using this technique. I like to describe them as physical manifestations of my sub-conscious.
More recently my focus has been on metal work and outdoor sculpture such as the "railing" and "Helixa".
My inspiration comes mainly from nature, curiosity, and my need to express ideas and feelings.
In the future I hope to create larger, more expressive, and more challenging works.
