I am a big gay white guy, a self-taught artist and unlikely champion of a medium known more for kitchen table craft than fine art. I have spent more than forty years sewing tiny glass beads, one to the next and as much as one year to create a single piece. My work has taken me all over the United States and abroad as a lecturer, exhibitor, and teacher, and is included in public and private collections

My career is informed by my desire to discover and to push boundaries. I have invented techniques that have become important tools for those who share my medium and employ these techniques in ways that alter what people expect from beadwork. Discovery is at the heart of what motivates me. My goal is to find what lies at the edge of my potential and that of this odd medium and to make a perfect object, an exquisite combination of concept, skill, and material. This goal, I will never achieve, but each time I get close, or closer than I have been, I remember who I am and why I have spent such an unreasonable amount of time and resources in pursuit of it.