“My interest in nature and the outdoors led me to a 30-plus-year career in environmental restoration.  This followed a bachelor’s degree in forestry and a masters and doctorate in water resources engineering.  Throughout, I’ve always had an interest in art, fed mostly through visits to museums.  But along the way, I began tooling leather and found that the traditional motifs and focus on fine craft could be expanded with a broader perspective.  One new direction was to use the leather pieces as a printmaking medium, where most of my effort lies today.  My work has been shown in regional, national and international venues, and I have been selected as an artist-in-residence at four national parks.

One of my goals is to make work that is socially relevant and incorporates scientific data.  To that end, I’ve been accumulating climate datasets and transforming them into aesthetic elements to include in visual art.  I’ve streamlined the work by combining environmental data with photography to reveal characteristics of world and U.S. oil production; atmospheric carbon dioxide wildfire, and temperature changes; water resource impacts and others.  Such hard scientific data is foreign to everyday life and I am developing a second viewpoint which is based on anecdotal observations from friends, acquaintances, and randomly-met contacts. These build a chorus that takes the environmental impacts and transforms them into the impacts on lived experience.”