I have been making things my entire life, mistakes included. Art though, for me, has been something necessary, uncontrollable, and the most important part of what makes me who I am. I started out drawing at an age too young to remember. I moved on to painting, taking classes and reading books on painting and sculpture and every art form in between. I studied architecture and painting, resulting in grid paintings and spaces that built themselves, and figurative paintings that explore the spaces they enveloped. Glass has been a building medium for me, three dimensional, a place itself to inhabit, rather than a material to build from. The places I found in my paintings I fuse into glass, resulting in spaces, fluid, dense and built - in many layers and multiple firings. All to create light and space one can not only view but enter into, be surrounded by and feel.