From my early childhood, I was always tinkering with things. Over time, my interests were focused in the area of woodworking. In 1984 a relative gave me an old Atlas wood lathe. This began my woodturning journey.

I learned woodturning the hard way, standing in front of the lathe with a book in one hand and a dull turning tool in the other. My first woodturning “how to” book was, “The Practical Wood Turner” written by English master turner Frank Pain in 1956. If you can find a copy of this book it is an interesting treatise on the craft (or is it art) of woodturning.

Over the years, I was fortunate to have been instructed by such notable woodturners as Dale Nish, Ray Key, Jamie Donaldson and others. I have been fortunate to know many other talented woodturners who unselfishly shared their knowledge with me.

In recent years most of my woodturning attention has been to create one-of-a-kind pieces of art, sold by commission and through juried art and craft shows. My work is held in a number of private collections and has been displayed at the Houston Center for Contemporary Crafts in Houston, TX.

I am a member of the American Association of Woodturners (AAW), President of the Hill Country Turners (HCT) of Kerrville, TX and a past member of the Gulf Coast Woodturners Association (GCWA). I have been a woodturning instructor at Majestic Ranch Art Foundation, Boerne, TX, and an instructor’s assistant at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.