Art and Story Telling

I created two murals with elementary students at Marguerite Montgomery during the the last two school years. The ceramic projects reflect their social studies topics. I was asked to create the projects by the Yolo County Art Council where I had been teaching students in Woodland and Davis. In 2007-2008, I designed a large ceramic mural that features original ceramic work by Montgomery Elementary students from kindergarten through 6th grade. This project was installed in June 2008. In 2008 -2009, I again worked with the students to create original tiles for a mural on columns at the front office.

Judy Chicago Kitty City Sculpture Project

A recent project has been working with feminist artist Judy Chicago. I worked on a sculpture project with her and John Natsoulas. I sculpted eight cat portraits from Chicago’s book Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours. Judy Chicago china painted the final sculptures. The John Natsoulas Gallery unveiled the sculptures in Chicago at the 2005 Sculptural Objects and Functional Art show.

The project inspired me to continue to explore cat imagery. I had a solo show "The Cat Aesthetic" in March featuring cat imagery. This lead to a commission of a large cat for a collector in Napa.

Purple Leopard Commission

Inspired by the Cat Series, I was recently commissioned to create a life size purple leopard for a residence in Napa. These clients have a beautiful art collection surrounded by their vineyard with rolling hills in the distance. The purple color of the sculpture looks especially striking on it's mustard wall when the vineyard in green.

2007

PRIVATE COMMISSION OF LIFE SIZED WILD BOAR SCULPTURE

LAFAYETTE, CA

2006

PRIVATE COMMISSION OF LIFE SIZED LEOPARD SCULPTURE

Life size purple ceramic leopard for wall by sculpture garden pool area, Napa CA

2005

JUDY CHICAGO COLLABORATION

Collaborative project to create cats featured in Chicago’s recent book. The Sculptures were to be featured at SOFA CHICAGO 2004. During this project, I worked with Judy Chicago to create eight cat sculptures from Chicago’s book Kitty City: A Feline Book of Hours. I would sculpt the cats and Judy would china paint them. Our collaboration took place over a 6 month period during which time we communicated by phone, email, and on multiple occasions worked together in my studio.

2004-2005

UC DAVIS VET SCHOOL, COMPANION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH

designed and create two dog sculptures for the Center for Companion Animal Health. A statue of the dog “Angel”, who had been a patient at the vet school, was the focus of the piece. Angel’s owner donated money to build “Angel’s Courtyard ” for the new Companion Center for Animal Health.

Staglin Family Vineyard

1997 - Two of my sculptures installed at the entrance of the Staglin Family Vineyard in Rutherford, a winery noted for it's extensive fine art collection.