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I love the reflection of a sense of wonder in nature while building a sculptural form.

A clear presence of forms in metal, wood and stone has revealed to me a personal connection with what was formerly an inanimate object which has become transformed into a living presence quite alive and memorable to all who might be exposed to its existence.

I believe we humans are generally speaking the sum total of all we have been and learned. Therefore I attempt to naturally transform my own life experience into each work I produce as art.

Recognizing that life is seen and experienced by our senses individually it reveals cognition at varied levels of perception by each persons viewpoint individually. I am only concerned with how I myself personally perceive the art I am producing or have produced while in the act of being an artist.

Abstraction in my work is the bending and molding of living entities which I call Zoomorphic Forms. I recognize the appearance of subtle entities which are the hallmark of these abstractions.The recognition of images in clouds, as an example, is subtle and surprising and I extrapolate this entity and integrate it into sculpture and enamel paintings. Surprise beats boredom.

In summary the work I perform as a sculptor and painter is for me a coffee wake up to what is all around us in life and the Wow of it all

Artist Exhibitions



Ranchs Gallery, Country Club Plaza1967-69
Westport Art Festival, Kansas City, Missouri
Topeka Zoo wildlife show 1972
St. Louis arc art show 1975
Wild Company Art Gallery Parkville, Missouri 1977-1980 my own art gallery
First Bank of Parkville, 1978
Art shows Hollister, Missouri 1981
Wild Company Gallery, Westport , Missouri 1977 my own art gallery
1st Environmental Expo at Bartle Hall, Kansas City 1997 showing Mountain Gorill Bronze for the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund and my Mountain Gorilla Support Team
Raytown, Missouri Art Music Festival 2004-2007
Parkville Art Music Festival 1999
Unity Village Art Auctions 1999
Art in The Park monument Council Grove, Kansas 2002
Wentworth Military Academy bronze monument sculpture commission 2001
Fine Art America online gallery 2009-2014
Art Wanted online Gallery 2008 - currentlyDuring the period between 1989-1992 I had been employed at the Nelson Adkins Museum of Art.

Also during this period had shown a complete body of work in sculpture and painting at the Northland Exposure Art Gallery located in Parkville, Missouri. Here a wide variety of top quality artists were showing and selling on a continual basis.

The bulk of my success has resulted from commissioned paintings and sculpture.
Murals with natural history themes for theaters and private homes as well as oil paintings representing wild animals which my patrons wanted for their main view art inside their homes over the years.

The Kansas Sculpture Society which was formed by professor Elden Teft at the University of Kansas stone sculpture design competition for. My design won the competition between a dozen mostly Kansas sculptors and stone carvers. My Limestone abstract sculpture known as Centrosphere was fabricated in a team carve at Beyer Stone Co. in St. Marys, Kansas in 1999. It was finished and installed the the City of Council Grove, Kansas in 2002.

Currently I have a private art studio located adjacent to the Platte River in Farley, Missouri where I enjoy stonemarble and limestone carving and painting as well as writing in a natural and quiet setting.





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