About Me

My interest in art began with Drawing from Nature with Capt. Bob. I progressed through painting copies of book covers from the shelves of my older siblings to genuine art classes, and eventually graduated from high school on Cape Cod as an art major.

After a detour to the work force for several years, I attended the Art Institute of Boston (now at Lesley University), and earned a BFA with Honors as a sculptor and printmaker in 1995.  Intaglio prints from my time at AIB are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Boston Public Library.

Having little interest in piling up more student debt or joining academia, I returned to the general work force to pay my loans and provide for a studio. I held jobs in and out of the art community; line cook, graphics & layout artist for medical publications, Preparator’s Assistant at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, laborer at a bronze-casting facility, and prepress operator. While cooking in Provincetown, I attended classes taught by Sal Del Deo at the Provincetown Artist Association & Museum.

In 1998 I landed at the live/work building at 226 Pearl Street, Somerville, MA, working with public sculpture artist John Tagiuri of JT Studios, making presentation illustrations and fabricating large-scale public sculptures. I took over his live/work space there and stayed.

My work has been exhibited at Gallerie Mourlot and First Expressions Galleries on Newbury Street in Boston; the Beside Myself Gallery of Sculpture in Woodstock, Vermont, in private homes and B&Bs in Provincetown, and local venues supportive of the large artist community in Somerville, such as the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square. I participate in Somerville Open Studios and was the coordinating representative for the 226 Pearl St. building in 2005.

My interests have expanded over time. Taking side jobs with a cabinet maker-neighbor, I started playing with furniture and turnery. The play in all media and processes continues.

Pieces of my work -paintings, sculptures, tables, cabinets, vases & bowls – are in homes (and in use) around the U.S. and the world.

My studio is still in Somerville, MA.

My Back Side

Maple Slab Table

Tools and Materials in Studio

Artist Statement

It’s an incredible privilege to be able to dedicate time and resources to make art objects, regardless of how practical those objects may be to us, and even more so under our present circumstances. 

There is an aspect of alchemy in all the objects’ manufacture, insofar as they are an attempt to make physical the inner dialogue we all have in one way or another. They are to aid in the digestion of our common situations,  a visual Rolaid, maybe. 

The portraits are images of the people as they were and presented themselves in that moment.  Whether traditionally representational as in the portraits, or metaphorically represented in sculpture, they express loud internal voices and processes quietly. Well, mostly quietly. 

Of course there are always those who tell me I have to choose – be a painter, or be a sculptor, work representationally or work abstractly. Almost always, this advice came from marketing consultants, or administrators, or others who are comfortable with compartmentalization.