Living next to a farm as a kid  I would bring  home  items like  parts from an old wheel barrel,  broken charred  pieces of oak wood and old  rusted  and  worn metal scraps .

I remember always seeing images and not the  actual items so I started creating the  impressions  I saw and then would give them away to mostly  family and  friends. 

              ow it all

         got started.

    “My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through earth’s  loveliness.”

~Michelangelo~

Years  later, with still a plentitude of recycled wood, metals, leather and fabric and clay on the planet, I am creating pieces inspired by nature  and rural living in the Appalachian culture.   A design degree helped and some experience in Las  Vegas, in what I called “ the adult Disneyland”, taught me about  thematic design.  So I keep my work true to its nature in theme through its completion.  The expressions come from  the   client and their lifestyle so each of my custom pieces has a story to  tell and offers a smile from the  buyer.  Art needs to reawaken,    create  laughter and tears, and offer a moment for the perceiver to see them self through a natural  gifted world.