I grew up in New York City, and lived in California and Toronto before moving to Halifax with my wife and children in 1988. I received my art training in the late 1960s at Antioch College and the New York Studio School. I am particularly grateful to the Studio School for providing a vibrant, creative environment in the context of a firm grounding in artistic tradition. After working in various two and three dimensional media over the years, at the turn of the millennium I felt increasingly drawn to clay — and in 2008 began an intensive four-year study/exploration of ceramics at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design.

In 2010 I started putting my ceramic sculptures up on the wall, which seemed to enable them to more readily elude the heaviness of gravity and embody a lightness of being. They evolved to combine linear extrusions and thin slabs, fired and glazed separately and then attached with epoxy. I found that this process facilitated the creation of open forms that actively engage with the surrounding space.

More recently I have returned to free-standing sculpture. I am particularly interested in making things that have a place in the natural world, that embody organic gestures of growth and decay, pushing and pulling, holding and releasing.

Each piece is a journey. It starts with an overall idea and then evolves in unforeseen ways, as relationships develop between disparate and seemingly random elements and ultimately there is a feeling of necessity. In searching for the beauty that embraces awkwardness — the harmony within dissonance — I look for a spacious visceral energy that can stop one’s mind in a moment of pure awareness.