I was born into the home furnishings world. My traditions include my grandfather and parents being furniture retailers. I spent a great deal of my childhood in furniture stores and factories. I still remember the feel and the smell of the foam rubber scraps I played with and running my hands through bolts of fabric on many a family excursion. My toys included magnetic floor planning kits and discarded swatches of fabric. I studied how to be an artist. I learned how to be a designer. I built a top 50 furniture company with my family. And after a career of designing and opening stores and warehouses and managing, I retired from the industry to pursue my creative side. That was 20 years ago. Today, I have a large body of work and  a number of completed remodels and new design projects on the boards.

My design orientation is rooted in my artistic practice. Each project incorporates the spatial relationships, texture and color interaction that have become so integral to my artistic process. I see the design process exploring the same themes of transition and change. And the same themes of working in the fine lines that intersect various types of creative mediums and media.

There are differences between design and artistic practices. Art is art. It has no rules. Design is  art, too.  Conceptualization  and visualization are the glue that binds  the two practices. But, design adds a third rail. This third rail selects out the dreams and ideas that cannot go beyond the  freedom of expression of the drawing board.