My work ranges from decorative to whimsical to functional. I have always had a love of sculpting and have created sculptures in wood since I was a child learning first from my grandmother then later from wood carver Jim Maxwell. I learned clay sculpture from the very talented Elizabeth Ritter. But metal sculpture is my true passion. It is such a challenge to cut, bend and shape the metal or to find the just right antique piece to create something special.

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I use some new metal, but I also spend a great deal of time searching for salvaged metal for my work. I search antique stores, scrap yard and farms looking for the perfect pieces for my work. I look for old farm machinery parts, old tools, old car parts and any other interesting metal that I can find. Sometimes I am looking for a specific piece of metal for a sculpture and sometimes the shape of the metal piece I find tells me what it is meant to be.

I started creating and selling metal sculptures in 2015. Over the years my sculptures have gone to new homes all over the United States.  My greatest joy is when someone tells me how much their friend or family member enjoyed the art piece that I made or tells me what they named it or where they placed it. My goal is to start with a pile of old tools and metal pieces and to create a piece that will last a lifetime and will hopefully be passed down through generations.