My aspiration as an artist is to continuously evolve the style and character of my work. Exploring the materiality of wood and its related processes has proven to be my best resource in doing so.

I select certain types of wood for their particular and unique qualities before they become part of my work, whether purely abstract, or figurative abstraction. My instinctive and empathic choice of material and tooling is foundational to the expressive quality of my work. Directed by the aesthetic properties of wood, its colour, textures, shapes, and forms, I select my material. Drawn from raw logs, processed timber, off-cuts large and small, and even sawdust, I am captivated by the possibilities of what such raw material may bring to the creative process.

Exploring these possibilities for many years, I have become equally comfortable in a woodworker's shop as I am in a steel forge, where I develop my own carving tools such as axes and adzes suited to my carving and splitting techniques. To guide myself in the exploration of such a vast field of material and technical options, I employ thematic markers such as Norse mythology, which sharply direct my focus in the construction of expressive artforms.