I am a retired 58 year old Colorado native and live with my wife Donna in Pueblo West, Colo. We have a combined family of 5 children and 6 grandchildren. I proudly claim to come from a family of 4 sisters and 1 brother. I had always been artistic as a child but never pursued that talent and went the direction of one of my other talents, vocal music. I was a choir director in our local church for several years but brought home our bread and butter by way of a career in machining for 30 years.

I haven't had any formal art instruction or study and consider myself to be self-taught. As yet I have not stayed with any particular painting style but I enjoy painting landscapes, animals, birds, and florals using mostly oils and acrylics. I tend to paint with a realistic touch, as I am very impressed by those who can paint something to the point of looking absolutely true to life or photographic, and to me that takes an extremely talented person. I hope to reach that point some day. My artwork is mainly applied on stretched canvas but have painted items for people on wood, stone, saw blades, and leather.

I have just recently persued my interests in woodworking. Now that I am retired, I have more time to spend on my grandfather's old lathe and joined a local AAW (American Association of Woodturners) group. I only wish I had started this earlier as I have discovered that my artistic abilities coupled with my many years as a machinist have proven to be most interesting. I have been able to project my creativity and my ability to do well with my hands in this new found art and be able to produce woodturning pieces that are on the level of the more advanced in this genre. Please follow my progress as I begin to enter images of this new-found art on this site.