I have always been drawn to the various techniques associated with sculpted glass but never explored working with glass until 2007.  It was at that time that a good friend of mine, and a multi-talented artist, Dennis Chamberlain, was teaching a class in beginning glass casting and my curiosity arose. The class was a great and I was then inspired to take a class in glass fusing. After that I was hooked on the many possibilities of Kiln forming glass and decided to explore this fabulous media in more depth. I have since taken several more classes and explored many different techniques of using a kiln to manipulate glass. 

To me glass is something that presents itself to the artist and demands that one take it to its limits. It is a wonderful material that on it's own is a fragile solid, one that can be taken by an artist, heated,  blended, manipulated, and transformed before being brought back to a fragile solidified form.