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Born in 1955 in London, England

Education

1980-1989
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1982
Orrefors Glass School, Orrefors, Sweden

1981
Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

1977
Camosen College, Victoria, BC

Exhibitions

2001
CUD 2001, Flux, San Diego, CA

2000
CUD 2000, collaborative show with John Drury, Max Fish, New York, NY
Bottle Wall Project, Bubba Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA

1999
Collaborative Show with John Drury, Bubba-Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Maryhill Museum Group Show, WA
Recent Glass, Riley Hawk Gallery, Columbus, OH
Mosaics, Pound Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck Faculty Show, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA

1998
Ducks in a Row, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Ducks, Dorita Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1997
Pilchuck Faculty Show, Sea-Tac Airport, Seattle, WA
Five Seattle Artists, Margo Jacobson Gallery, Portland, OR
Glass Ducks, Glass Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Glass Ducks, Dick Coplan Gallery, Boca Rotan, FL
Hobby 2000, Group Show curated by Walter Lieberman, Bubba-Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Glass Ducks, Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

1996
Glass and Paintings, Bubba-Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck Glass Center Faculty Show, Stanwood, WA
Vetri International Glass, Seattle,WA

1995
Blue, Bubba-Mavis Gallery, Seattle, WA
Pilchuck 25 Years, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
B-Team, Seattle, WA
Hilltop Project, Tacoma, WA
Glas I, Stockholm, Sweden
Chihuly Chandelier Project, Waterford Glass Factory, Ireland
Paint and Glass: The Expressive Connection, Philabaum Gallery, Tucson, AZ
The Beauty of Painted Glass: New Directions in the Northwest, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
Fuel Gallery, Seattle, WA
North West Glass, Glass 1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
3 Dimensions x Four, Fuel Gallery, Seattle, WA

1993-1994
Screams with Laughter: Storytelling in Northwest Craft, Traveling exhibition curated by Lloyd E. Herman, including Bumbershoot '93, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, and the Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, BC

1993
Objects of our Affection, Fuel Gallery, Seattle,WA
16th Annual International Pilchuck Exhibition, William Traver Gallery, Seattle,WA

1992
Third Generation-Fifth Dimension, Grove Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Contemporary Painting on Glass, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, WA
Belltown Inside Out, Nineteen-Hundred Fourth Avenue, Seattle,WA
CUD Recycle, in collaboration with John Drury, Crocodile Cafe Gallery, Seattle,WA
New Glass, Buschien Mowat Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1991
Objects of Our Affection, Fuller/Elwood Gallery, Seattle,WA
Contemporary Glass, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

1990
Seattle Now, Foster White Gallery, Seattle,WA

1988-1989
Pilchuck Glass, Traver Sutton Gallery, Seattle,WA

1988
Contemporary Artists

Awards

2001
Nominated for Tiffany Award

1999
Nominated for Tiffany Award

1982
British Columbia Council for the Arts Artist Grant

Publications

2001
CUD by Carlo McCormick, Glass Magazine

1994
Artist in Residence Catalogue, Pilchuck Glass School
The Beauty of Painted Glass, Victoria Milne, Glass Magazine New Glass Review
The Beauty of Painted Glass, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

1992
Contemporary Painting on Glass, Matthew Kangas, Seattle Times review

1991
Glass Painters of the Northwest, Dick Weiss, Glasswork Magazine, Issue #8

1990
Glasswork Magazine, Issue #3

1987
Seattle Street Art, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Professional Experience

2001
Co-teaching with John Drury at Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

2000
Co-teaching with John Drury at UrbanGlass, New York, NY

1999
Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1998
Co-teaching with John Drury at Urban Glass, New York, NY

1997
Teaching Assistant to Ben Moore, Haystack, NC

1996
Instructor, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA

1985-Present
Glassblower, Benjamin Moore Inc., Seattle, WA
Executing works by Benjamin Moore, Preston Singletary, Dante Marioni, Paul Marioni/AnnTroutner, Dan Dailey, Dick Weiss, Cappy Thompson, Rich Royal, Italo Scanga,Louis Mueller, Fritz Driesbach, Narcissus Quagliata, Charles Parriot

1984-Present
Glassblower, Dale Chihuly Inc., Seattle, WA
Assistant to Lino Tagliapietra, executing "Chihuly Venetian" Series (1989-Present)
Workshop with Dale Chihuly, Nijiima Island, Japan (1989)
Assistant Gaffer, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (1988)
Workshops with Dale Chihuly and Ben Moore, Rhode Island
School of Design,Providence, RI (1987, 1984)

1993
Visiting Artist in Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood,WA

1988-1992
Assistant to Danny Perkins, Seattle, WA

1991
GlassBlower, Glass Workshop with Lino Tagliapietra and Anthony Jojola
Center International de Recherche sur les Verres et les Arts Plastique,Marseille, France

1988-1990
Assistant to Sculptor, Italo Scanga, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, Artist in Residence
Executed Mosaic Commission (1989)
Assistant to Artist during workshop at California College of Arts and Crafts (1988)
Executed and supervised the painting of sculpture Man with Sun, public art project, San Jose, CA (1988)

1984-1989
Assistant Gaffer, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA . Assistant to William Morris and Rich Royal in execution of works by Harvey Littleton, Paul Marioni, William Morris, Rich Royal, John Torreano, Dan Dailey, Tom Beuchner, Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslaua Brychtova, Susan Stinsmuelen Amend, Ann Gardner, Amos Glick Zook, Bertil and Ulrica Vallien, Danny Perkins, Erwin Eisch,Klaus Moje, Peter Shire, Jerry Pethick, Ann Warff, Therman Statom, Dick Marquis

1988
Collaboration with John Drury, New York, NY Assistant to John Lewis Co, Oakland, CA
Teacher Assistant, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA