I have a foot firmly planted in both the fine craft and art worlds. I am a painter. I am a glassblower, creating functional, decorative and sculptural works. I am a mixed media sculptor, working with clay and found objects. Fundamentally though, when you set aside the fluidity of materials and processes, I am at the core a storyteller.

Much of my work grows out of my early experiences of growing up on a farm in rural Ontario. As a child I was interested in the minute details of the natural world, of how the lives of the creatures living there were dictated by the environment. This rural sensitivity has stayed me and comes out in my choices of materials, love of worn and aged surfaces, and subject matter I choose in my works.

I have lived in the Beaver Valley area for the last 20 years. Currently my home and studio are in Clarksburg, where I live with my teenage son, 2 cats, in a wild garden full of unruly rabbits and birds.