Originally from Chicago, IL, I attended the Illinois Institute of Technology and earned a professional degree in Architecture, where I learned how to "see" and design. I worked with Frederick Phillips and Associates for several years on small and large scale residential and commercial projects before deciding to turn my attention towards furniture building. I attended the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, and promptly relocated to Seattle to start my new career.

Furniture: My primary passion, hand crafted fine furniture building, fulfills my desire to work carefully with my hands to make something beautiful. My design style is modern and I love the Danish Modern movement of the mid-century. I recently graduated away from my early projects in plywood, and have learned the craft of solid wood construction at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship in Maine. There, I learned about hand tools and maintanance, advanced wood joinery, and a great deal about design. I learned how to build thoughtfully in solid wood, and how to account for the seasonal expansion and contraction of wood as temperature and humidity change. I was allowed to practice my new skills on my own designs, and continue to grow into this field every day.

Currently, I am living in Seattle, WA and setting up shop in hopes of making this my career. If you have any custom projects that you would like help creating, please contact me at details@thinkreate.net.

Paintings: My paintings are, for me, a meditative act that results in images that I only come to recognize when the work is complete. The planning stage generally only goes as far as deciding the dominant color and the proportions or arrangement of the canvas or canvases. The specific image mutates and twists and changes as easily as my emotions until it reaches the point that I allow it to freeze in time. It is then that I ask only the specific viewer to decide what is shown. Your interpretation of what you see, and what it makes you feel, are far more important than any definition an artist can force through explanation.

Bikes: As a hobby, I rebuild bikes. I love the simplicity and beauty of bicycle as machine, but I also enjoy the idea that rebuilding the bike is a symbol of sustainability and social and environmental responsibility. By rebuilding a bike, I am not only keeping that bike from either being destroyed or entering the landfill but I am also re-creating a new health-friendly and gas-free means of transportation. I try to make the bikes that I handle work as they did when they were new, and I try to make them look like new as well.