Glass and Metal
In July 2024 I’ll be teaching “Cut It Out”, a three-day Photoshop and Cricut stencil workshop at The Enamelist Society Conference in Little Rock.
I’m a California coastal native, exploring the tidal landscape with copper and the difficult enameling technique of champlevé. My original medium was glass, but photo imagery has always been a first love. I now use enamels, metal, photography and fire to create pieces that are ambiguous and often appear to be visual hybrids. Whether my work is seen close up or from a distance, I want to evoke an enigmatic landscape, to suggest alternate realities that are as elusive as the ever-changing tideline.
“Salt Point Tafoni #5”, champlevé enamel on copper, 8” x 8”
“Warming Trends”, electroformed copper on Coralline algae, with patinas, 7” x 5”
I call myself a mad scientist at heart, an alchemist in love with color, imagery, and the lure of unpredictable materials, chasing results that ignore conventional rules and technical “impossibilities”.
I grew up on an ocean beach that changed with each tide, where my environment was always unpredictable. Glass and metal have many changeable forms and colors that are metaphors for this landscape. I explore their ephemeral qualities, inspired by water, sand, erosion, geological forces. Things that wash ashore and tug at memory. Remnants of other times, other lives.
My website is both a gallery of my work and a place I share various techniques. Welcome!