Artist Statement:

        
        Light and glass are one.  Glass art is timeless.  Fire breathes the life into the glass.  Shades result from the way the light hits the various angled surfaces.  It is this information that helps one perceive the glass sculptural form.  I find my work in glass will never seem done or completed.  As an artist I see my work in sculptural kiln form glass continuing with my learning.  One of the intriguing things about glass is that it offers me the power to view the divine.  Working in glass sculpture is timeless and infinite.  It is my desire that the aesthetic response of the view is not an appreciation of
what pleases, but what opens the eyes. 

            “The same Spirit who hovered over the waters at the beginning of creation hovers over the mind of the artist at work.”

                                                                         St. Thomas Aquinas

 Education, Career, and Residencies:

2010 - Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL Glass Art Instructor
2009 - Salvador Dali Museum Art Program Instructor
2008 - Salvador Dali Museum Art Program Instructor
2007 - Artist in Residency City of Clearwater2006 - North Lands Creative Glass, 
             International Master Class and Conference, Lybster, Scotland
2005 - Artist in Residency for Research Grant City of Clearwater
2004 - Present Eckerd College
2003 – Glassblowing Corning Glass Studio, Corning, NY
2003 - Taught workshops at Ozona Art Studio
2002 - University of Tampa Art and Design
2002 - Visiting Artist at University of Wolverhampton, England
2002 - Visiting Artist in Residence at Brookside School, Telfor, England
2001 - Pilchuck Glass School, studied with Ryosuke Kinoshita
2000 - Penland School of Arts and Crafts, studied with Rick Beck
1999 - Invitational Residency at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,
            Canada, Only American invited to participate
1998 - Studied with Artist Painter Richard Mullard
1997 - Studied at HotGlass Horizons, Portland, Oregon
1996 - Studied at HotGlass Horizons, Portland, Oregon
1995 - Established Independent Glass Studio
1994 to 2002 – Design Team-Gregg & Associates Interior Design
1992 -1993 – Studied with Glass Artist Newy Fagan
1980 to 1984 Taught Art at Our Lady of Lordes Catholic School
 

Exhibitions

2006 - "Black and White" Capital Arts Network National Juried Exhibition,
             Bethesda, MD
2005 - "Born of Fire" Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 -  Juried Exhibition National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia
2005 - "Love, Hate, Love" Capital Arts Network National Juried Exhibition,
              Bethesda, MD
2005 -  Juried Exhibition Pilchuck Glass School Auction, Seattle     
2004 – Juried Glass Sculpture into Pilchuck Glass School 26^th
              Annual  Auction
2004 – Juried Exhibition Cordova Museum, Alaska
2004 – Juried Three Person Show at the Longboat Key Center for 
             the Arts   March 26, 2004 to September 24, 2004
2004 - Student Exhibition Vermont College Gallery
2003 - Exhibition St. Petersburg Center for the Arts
2003 - Juried Exhibition Sarasota Cultural Arts
2003 - Student Exhibition Vermont College Gallery
2002 - Juried Exhibition Design Lab Gallery, Tampa, FL
2002 - Juried Exhibition University of Tampa
2001 - Selected Exhibition Ozona Beach Gallery
2000 - Selected Exhibition Center for the Arts Gallery Leesburg, FL
1999 - Selected Exhibition University of Manitoba, Canada

 Representative  Commissions and Collections:

San Juan Hotel, South Beach, FL
Shepard’s Resort, Clearwater, Fl                                  
Hotel at Universal Studios, Orlando, FL                      
Hotel Kissimmee/Disney World, FL                                  
Hotel Winston-Salem, N.C.                                                 
Church Chandeliers, Minneola, FL               
Ozona Beach Gallery, Ozona, FL    
Design Lab Gallery, Tampa, FL                                         
La Petite Restaurant, Naples, FL 
La Quinta El Mercado, CA 
Concept One Insurance, Tampa, FL
Wholefoods Market Corporate Collection, Sarasota, FL