In my furniture and mixed media work I use found materials. Sometimes I manufacture these "found materials". I use the skills I have developed working in the trades in conjunction with experience and experiment and a lifetime of knocking around in the "Art World", that strange and other place. When I'm assembling my mixed media pieces, I spend a lot of time imagining that I'm a handyman/craftsperson existing in a primitive place down river from here assembling the detritus from other cultures as it washes ashore- trying to make to make sense of the clues and making something new and useful from the rejected bits and pieces of another place and time. I am a folk artist, reassembling the flotsam and jetsam in a way that makes sense to my wit and experience and pays homage to the things I love.

In 1998 I started painting seriously just to enjoy the simplicity of two dimensionality. I found that the marriage between color and line was irresistible and was seduced by the concept of image as narrative. I have done mainly back painting on plexiglass which leads to an unusual surface and depth of color I find exciting. Painting mainly "people doing things" and "portraits of furniture" the paintings tend to pose questions about the narrative which the viewer is encouraged to ponder and perhaps answer.