About Me

My honey, Vennie, is my first love and passion.

My other passions are computer applications and folk art.

I am a Kentucky native. After graduating from Eastern Kentucky University, I taught Navajo children for ten years in northern Arizona. There I began painting southwestern landscapes. Returning to Kentucky as a teacher and training developer for the army, I concentrated on job, home, and children.

After retirement in 2001, I again became interested in art, focusing on folk art, especially wood carving.  My wife, Vennie, is a fine artist – and I waver between folk and fine.  Being honest, I consider myself much more of a folk artist or artisan since I love to make utilitarian art.

My artistic interests are rather varied:

• Carving traditional walking sticks of local woods.
• Carving colonial spoons and kitchen utensils
• Giving old canes a new life.
• Sculpting (carving) miniatures (less than 8X8X8) in wood and occasionally terracotta.
• Painting Southwestern & Appalachian landscapes.
• I have recently gotten into oil miniatures (less than 25 square inches 4X6).