Roots
Ruining perfectly good tools since I was 3 years old, and messing about in boats just as long. Being the Ol' mans helper fueled my desire to make, and create things. Whether it was something artistic, or some over built useless thing of greatness... I was in.
Having suffered the graphics dungeon of a medical & personal care products company. Freelancing as a photographer and fiddling around in the commercial film industry... I got bored.
Forever unable to beat back the draw of the Sea. I did my best to mix it all in a big cauldron and build a bigger fire.
Building a reputation in the marine industry over the last 27 years. My handcrafted boats have been honored while in attendance at Wooden Boat shows & Traditional Small Craft Festivals in the northeast.
I have skippered both private & commercial vessels, logging over 120,000 nautical miles at Sea.
Paramount to the lot of it all... Im fortunate to have created a life built on my childhood desires.
The Boatworks has provided me the opportunity to expand my creativity. While providing a great cover story for my tool fetish.
..I find it frustrating when I have nothing to make.
Materials
Ill chew on all kinds of different mediums and materials. Exotic, found or stolen! LOL.
Its 6 and 1/2 dozen for me. I like to find the aesthetic in all things.
For me the basics for fine art go beyond the perception of the classic Bill of Materials.
A product of my environment.. I enjoy assemblages in a variety materials, and appreciate the elements coming together to create an object with, or without functional purpose. I find sticking to a single medium restrictive to the process which ultimately binds you with a limitation.
Each idea manifests in its own style as the idea evolves. Its great JuJu when a piece becomes its own process, and ultimately presents itself for finishing.
The relationship between materials. How they carry one another physically, and aesthetically. The industrial weight of steel, the natural elements of wood. Integrating found objects and working them into each others world. Manipulating that struggle to its breaking point, finding that balance and easing its tension.
I use materials that speak too the piece, people a place. As a fabricator I equally enjoy the variety of tradecraft's required in processing raw materials.
Fabrication...Woodworking, Welding, Composite materials, Sculpting, Photography, Works on paper.. lead, blood & Black Powder!
I like to make marks, I like them large, dark and Id like them to leave an imprint.
I enjoy the lack of sleep that kills me, find comfort in material handling, and feed off discovery.
Inspirations
Drawing from the worlds around me. Those places I've been, learned or experienced from. Good or bad.
Im inspired by the search for materials and the discovery each piece brings with it as it evolves.
The use of tools, equipment and the process used to work materials. All oddly creates a composite nature to my work.
Emotions that evoke a memory or desire to which we connect. As a maker, generating something unique for someone brings with it an enjoyment. Much like your giving a bit of a gift. The payoff is in the comfort each work carries with it. The beauty ultimately being that we all have our own perspective, yet appreciate things equally from different worlds.
Its your idea, be one with your art.
...Unique Custom Sufff.