I was raised on a farm in Ohio and spend most of my adult life in Southern California building mansions on the beach and creating art.
I started in wood as a master carpenter and expanded to any other material I could get my hands on. I do indoor and outdoor sculptures in wood, bronze, metal, paper and stone, furniture, paintings, crafts (I taught 19th century woodworking at Shaker Village in Kentucky for a time), longbows, knifes, bowls, etc.
After severe drought and wildfires my wife and I relocated 8 years ago to this magnificent forest on a small mountain in Newfield outside of Ithaca where she had gone to college. First I build my dream workshop and then got to work on camps and cabin available on Airbnb at our Sanctuary in the Woods.
Here I use as much natural and repurposed materials as I can and have space and inspiration for my art. I love the beauty of the seasons and ample water.
Please come visit my workshop, my house gallery and walk the trails and enjoy my outdoor art as well.
Years of cabinet making and remodels taught me well how to work with someone’s individual tastes. I am a local Home Inspector as well. I have been dubbed the Renaissance Man by friends and family because I am always working on something new: like my self designed caravan or my small skin on frame wood boat presently in my workshop. I love meeting fellow art and nature lovers.
Studio Location Specifics and Accessibility:
When you arrive at Jackson Hollow, look for the large timber framed mailbox with the round “R.”
The studio is flat to the ground. There is lots of my work in my house as well and that is up three steps.