Artist Statment

	Being relatively new to glass I am just recently starting to find my 
place in this medium. Most commonly associated with glass is its beauty. 
For obvious reasons, it is a hard attribute to oversee. My art does 
not have to be beautiful. It has to be inspiring.
	I have worked with acrylic, water color, and oil paint, as well 
as, music, photography, and metal smith. It was not until 2005 that I  
discovered my new medium of choice. Since then, I have studied under 
Maestro Robert Mickelsen, Carmen Lozar, Scott Deppe, Christopher McElroy 
and Mark Lammi. The one thing I learned from all of them, was that glass 
has no limits.
	Besides my wife, my main source of inspiration is progression. 
Not only individual progression, but progression as a whole. This happens
 when an artist decides to create something and doesn’t stop to wonder if 
anybody will like it. An even better situation would be if an artist 
assumes nobody will like it and still creates it with a smile. This is 
what causes art to progress. Without it, art would be boring. Without it,
I would be bored. 


Education


Eugene Glass School, Eugene, OR, 2007
Instructors - Robert Mickelsen and Carmen Lozar

Eugene Glass School, Eugene, OR, 2007
Instructor - Mark Lammi

Private Lessons, Bellingham, WA, 2008
Instructor - Scott Deppe

Private Lessons, Bellingham, WA, 2008
Instructor - Christopher McElroy


Exhibitions

2009
"4th annual night with Borosilicate"
Seattle Glassblowing Studio, Seattle, WA