Bronze has a timeless quality, transcending cultures, eras and trends.

Because I love crafting a piece that looks as though it’s been around for as long as two hundred years or as little as ten, bronze is one of my favorite mediums.

My latest collection features musings in acrylic. As an advertising person in the past, I often rendered print ads, including type, so that clients could envision an idea. I love the combination of words and pictures, and the crudeness of hand-rendered type.

Captured in solid earth, objects crafted of stone are beautifully tactile. Either honed smooth, buffed to a polish, or left with a coarse finish - both the object and the stone itself tell a story.

Although bronze and stone are my primary mediums, I sometimes work outside of the two.

Because I love when an object looks like a fragment of a ruin, I’ll occasionally take a piece of a broken piece, have a mold made and re-create the piece in plaster or cement. These “fragment” objects have an immediacy and coloration that speaks to their moment in the creative process.

Occasionally I’ll have a piece made from water-based clay (originally used to make a bronze) fired as a final work in and of itself.

Additionally, I’ve created small objects specifically to be rendered in silver or other metals.

Although you may first see a piece in a gallery, show or on line, I feel artwork looks its best in a home. I love seeing my pieces as they truly live - on a mantle, in a shelf or tucked into an alcove.

Sculpture creation doesn’t necessarily proceed at a rapid pace. Care is taken to the initial concept of how a piece will look. Then, as the sculpture is worked on, it starts to talk back and have a mind of its own. Each stage is its own journey.

For each bronze, the piece’s size is determined and perhaps a structural armature is created to support the work. The piece is executed in clay. At the point when its decided the piece is “finished”, there are still several more stages to go through before the work is complete:

• A plaster and rubber mold is made around the clay, creating a “negative” image. Wax is poured into the mold, producing another “positive”, in other words: replicating the clay.

•A plaster mold specifically made around this new wax “positive” creates what will hold the final bronze. Molten or liquid bronze will be poured into this mold at the foundry, melting and replacing the wax in the process.

•Once cooled, this plaster is broken open and the piece is removed from its casing. At this point, the metal has a brassy appearance.

•A patina is then applied to the gold-toned bronze and cured, which gives the piece its final rich and somewhat varied appearance.