The scenes I draw and then craft into stained glass panels are guided by over two decades of working and living outside. As a field biologist I spent years tip toeing through tidepools and diving in kelp forests collecting data on seaweed and invertebrates along the pacific coast of North America from Alaska to Mexico. While I also love working in every setting from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific Northwest rainforest, the ocean’s edge is a place I connect with deeply. As an adventurer I have been swimming, sailing, surfing and beachcombing my entire life on oceans around the world. In between oceans I find myself in the mountains – rock climbing, peak bagging, wondering at the tiniest alpine meadow flowers. Being out in wilderness makes me feel like my truest self. That connected feeling is hard to hold onto when I’m back in the manufactured constructs of humanity. Creating landscapes and wild moments in glass grounds me and helps tap into the wild nature of myself.

My artwork provides a portal to daydream into another world.

I find glass to be the ultimate medium that connects light and color as you would experience nature’s brilliance outside. The resulting pieces create a dynamic image that changes all day long as the sun moves across the sky. I like the juxtaposition of using rigid sheet glass that tends to break in straight lines to create soft curves of rivers, mountains, and seaweed. Glass is at once fragile and enduring, a relevant metaphor for the places I convey in my art.