Where Metal Comes to Life

About 

I’ve been sculpting in metal for more than half my life. I started working with metal when I was 14, when my dad bought me a small welding kit to build some fence panels around the horse corral. I guess I never really stopped.
I like metal as an art medium because it is hard. Literally. It takes a lot of grinding, pounding, welding, cutting, and figuring things out to make a piece of steel look like something that was once alive. There are easier ways to make a sculpture, but I like the challenge.
I’ve spent most of my time trying to understand how to take hard, unforgiving metal and turn it into natural and classical forms. I’m especially interested in naturalism—the closer I can get the sculpture to looking and feeling right, the better.

I’m based in Cedar City, Utah, where I have had my studio since 2004. My work is primarily fabricated from steel and other metals rather than cast. I enjoy the fact that fabricated metal sculpture is still a relatively unexplored medium, especially when it comes to highly naturalistic work.
I’m still learning and still trying to get better. My goal is to see just how far I can push metal as a sculptural medium and, hopefully, make something that looks a little more alive than it has any right to.