Part of my role as an artist is to remind myself and the viewer to smile, as an essential ingredient to our survival. Wood is the means in which I get to explore this.

Laughter, pain, wonder, sensuality, all deserve to be touched. My work allows a visual and tactile connection with these primal emotions. Discovering sensation in wood requires a lot of faith and patience.

Each piece has its own secret.

I need to listen to help it come out.

Sometimes the design hits immediately... other times, I sit with the wood for a while, then suddenly visualize the piece.

But as I create, surprises happen. And very often, the accidents are more interesting than the original idea.

Perhaps the accidents are the secret.