“I have always been a maker.

To me, making is essentially about the hand and the hand’s connection to its source and the source of creative expression. Making allows me to feel focused and at ease with myself. Making puts me in touch with my inner child. Making gives me an opportunity to feel connected in a disconnected world. Making, I am me.

I currently practice a form of Turkish Ebru marbling, a decorative technique in which paints are floated on water and the designs created in the paints are then transferred to paper or silk. Prior to this, I have practiced blacksmithing, silver work, screen printing and wood working. Paper making beckons.

Making is a journey through the landscape of the imagination down into the realm of the physical. Making is a venture we can all undertake. Making connects the above and the below. Making is healing.

My books are completely hand bound. I make them all from flat paper stock, cutting, folding, sewing and glueing and finally finishing them with my hand marbled paper. I consider them to be “proto-hardrives,” blank slates upon which you can leave the impressions of your own individual genius, recording your hopes and aspirations, and your fears and concerns, in words and pictures. I hope you enjoy them and they help foster your own creativity.”

Floyd, VA