Color continues to inspire me. The recent sunrises and sunsets up on my knob (Kentucky small mountain or big hill) have been particularly brilliant and expressive because of frequent storms and, probably, global warming.

Working with my crew, not distracted by anything, being able to totally focus on the hot mass of molten glass on the end of the pipe, mesmerized by the pattern of murrine, this is what I want, time stands still or, at least, goes to slow motion. Working in the zone!

I was drawn to the process of glassblowing because of the immediacy and intensity.  I have always been something of a pyromaniac, as my background in ceramics was mostly involved with the raku firing.  I do have a love of fire.

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS

Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VACincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OHCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHDetroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MIGrounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJH.E. Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor Al-Thani, Foreign Minister, Doha, QatarHaystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, MEHermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RussiaHunter Museum of American Art,Chattanooga, TNHuntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, ALLamar Dodd Art Center, LaGrange, GALvov Art Institute, Lvov, UkraineMobile Museum of Fine Art, Mobile, ALMontgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, ALMontgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, ALMuskegon Museum of Art,Muskegon MIRacine Art Museum, Racine, WIRed May Glass Museum, Vishny Volochok, RussiaRegent Hotel, Le Plume, Hong KongSydney College of Art, Sydney, AustraliaThe Auckland Museum, Auckland, New ZealandThe Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New YorkWagga Wagga City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, AustraliaWustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI