EXHIBIT STATEMENT
I began working in stained glass seven years ago when I was building a corner cabinet for my dining room. I knew I wanted stained glass panels in the upper doors and realized I had to learn how to make it to get what I wanted. After a few classes I was hooked.
Although I wanted to be an artist from an early age, I didn’t devote the required time and discipline, despite taking art classes in high school, college, and beyond. I was talented but not inspired. I was good, but not creative or original. One author says a person must devote 10,000 hours to become competent as an artist. I look back today and know I have given the time to be a very good gardener, a good wood worker, and now a stained glass artist. With woodworking, I found my medium but with stained glass I found joy!
I devote about 20 hours a week to this craft and to woodworking. At present my woodworking has evolved from making furniture to creating frames for glass panels.
The glory of stained glass belongs, in a large part, to the crafters of this fabulous medium. These glass artisans are the real heros. I just find a pleasing way to arrange it.
ARTIST BIO
During my early years as the son of a congregational minister, we lived in several small New England towns in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine; and later a mountain community in Western North Carolina. Moving every few years proved to be very interesting and educational. I learned to adapt, to fit in, and to marvel at the differences of surroundings, food, dialect, and customs. For my high school years our family of six moved to upstate New York.
Central Kentucky has been my home following my graduation from the University of Kentucky, where I majored in education, psychology, and a master’s program in Educational Psychology. I retired from a career in education with Fayette County Public Schools as a grant writer, administrator of safety programs, and student assistance coordinator.
Currently I live alone in Georgetown, following more than 40 years on a small farm in Scott County where my wife and I raised two children. Since retiring I have found the time to stay very busy with gardening, woodworking and, of course, stained glass.
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