About the Artist

Biography

Prior to pursuing a career as an artist, John enjoyed a 35-year career in the aerospace industry, starting as a machinist and ending as a design engineer.  A large portion of those years were spent hand-building instruments that now reside in the Hubble Space Telescope.  He draws heavily on his knowledge and experience in making scientific instruments while exploring non-functional objects as an artist.  A craftsman at heart, he designs and fabricates many of the tools and machines he uses in his craft. John has also attended classes at Pilchuck Glass School and The Corning Museum of Glass.

Artist Statement

John is inspired by vessels of antiquity, often times distilling a functional design to its essence in order to explore the deeper meaning of the object.  Vessels from times past and their contemporary symbolic forms have the ability to trigger memories in the unconscious and transport us via our own internal imagination about things that might have been or may have transpired in another dimension.  These things are all interconnected throughout spacetime and human unconsciousness regardless of our personal belief systems.  His work aims to explore these concepts through form and sculptural symbolism.