In 1966 pottery entered my life. I was a music major at Central Washington University, where I took an intro pottery class from the late Richard Fairbanks. That one class led to a passion that only music had come close to. Other courses followed and, under the tutelage of Fairbanks, I learned the craft of pottery and thus the journey began. After leaving college, I settled in one of the most isolated communities in the North Cascades, the village of Steheikin. In this surrounding of majestic mountain peaks I set up my first pottery studio.

      Several years later I moved to Winthrop, Washington and set up my second studio, making small jugs for Sun Mountain Lodge. In 1974 my studio burned down (a non-pottery related fire) the spirits of wind and fire had spoken. That event changed my life for many years.

      With my pottery business on hold, due to lack of all necessary tools, my wife and I spent the next 11 years returning an abandoned 280 acre homestead to a working ranch. We raised our children, ran a cross-country ski business and started a Montessori School. In 1985 we moved to Bellingham, WA. Having spent many years working with the earth, I felt it was time to return to my passion, pottery, and arrange earth once again; the third phase began.

      A life long interest in eastern religion, especially Tibetan Buddhism, greatly influences my work. My art reflects my lifelong inner journey. My path to enlightenment is the trek along a mountain path in pursuit of the summit. On occasion you glimpse your goal but more often the folds of reality, as the folds in the earth, obscure your vision.  My work can be viewed and purchased through this web site, at my studio, various galleries, stores and arts fairs.