My work delves into our complex relationship with the environment, our desire to control it and covet it, to manage it and exploit it, creating a power struggle in which I believe nature will ultimately win.
I create sculptures by selectively morphing components from both flora and fauna, shaping them into creations that are based loosely in reality and largely in fantasy.
Through the medium of egg tempera I create paintings that depict evidence of our human imprint on the natural world.
Inspired by the flora and fauna that surround my home in the small, unincorporated town of Thorp, WA, I create delicate mixed-media sculptures and small-scale egg tempera paintings. As a member of PUNCH Projects, a rural arts collective, I remain active in the regional art scene. I received a BFA in metalsmithing from Colorado State University in 1995 and an MFA in sculpture from Central Washington University in 1999.
Living in rural central Washington, I put my master gardener skills to work in my own backyard, hunt for mushrooms, backpack in the woods of the Northwest and enjoy exploring the world beyond my front door.