My work is in the areas of painting and ceramics. For me the processes are very different as are the final results.

For the most part, my ceramics work is fairly straight forward and traditional. I prefer to throw larger one of a kind forms which are either high fired to cone 10 or raku fired. I work with stoneware, porcelain and raku clay bodies. Usually one to two glazes are applied along with one or more colorants to accent the form. The colorants are usually applied in a spontaneous fashoin with a brush. I like to think that my brushwork is influenced by Japanese calligraphy and Asian pottery in general. From time to time I will also throw forms in a series such as dinnerware sets, although I tend to find these tedious and somewhat restrictive.

Although my slides here do not indicate it, I have also been known from time to time to make ceramic sculptural forms. The last work I did in this area was two large pieces which were commissioned for the University of Arizona, Sierra Vista Campus. These pieces are semi abstracted figures, about two thirds life size in scale and one incorporates other materials. This mixed media tendency goes way back in my oeuvre and is, obviously, present in many of the paintings that I have included here.

My paintings tend to run in series with occasional one-of-a-kinders thrown in here and there over the thirty or so years that I have been working. The work has always been imagination driven although I will paint an object from direct observation if the need arises. The paintings are always large and painted in the studio. The influences or inspiration almost always are diverse and wide ranging but they always have some thread of connection. Synchronism and non-linear processes play a huge part in the imagery. In the most recent work the written word in incorporated into the image.

I believe it is my job as an artist to make somewhat disturbing images; to shake things up; to make people think about how we are doing, historically speaking, and where we might be heading into the brave new world.