In 1976 I came to Maryland Institute College of Art to teach printmaking full time. During those teaching years I developed my own work, exhibited it nationally and traveled widely.

For the over a decade my etchings have grown from my observations of city life, human foibles and old fables. About 6 years ago I experienced a kind of epiphany. My images needed to be made of glass! The glass would act as a metaphor for the transparency, fragility, strength, permanence and reflective power in all the moments I was describing. I imagined these pictures in low relief made of glass that would refer to stone carvings on columns and friezes that people in ancient times used to describe their daily life.

So sure was I of this revelation that I went to work immediately. I began with sand blasting deeply into the glass to create my first body of work in this medium that was so new to me. A class at Pilchuck with Paul Marioni taught me how sand casting could give my images even greater physicality and drama. Work at Corning and The Washington Glass School (in DC) expanded my casting experience. A session with Che Rhodes at Penland in the summer of 2004 led me to making freestanding figures that create their own world on a stage-like base.