The three elements are ever present, Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air.

Horses Running on Beach

I was called to a project to design some tropical flowers on a pair of entry doors into a clients office. During the initial interview, I listened in the background for a third choice that was not considered yet. As my job is to listen to what purpose is I am to complete for the client. I so put on his coat for a while.

It is in these moments that I have an opportunity of doing what I do best, to create a new idea not yet considered. To explore what it is to be an artist. The three elements are ever present, Earth, Wind, Fire, and Air.

The inspiration for these art pieces came from a client who lived on a ranch with horses as a young man. He recently purchased a beach house on the California coast, it is here where we began the process of expressing the freedom he felt retiring at this new home. 

What started as tropical flowers ended in what you see in the drawings before you. 

 The glass measuring 63 x 20 to be placed in the office doors, laminated safety plate was the proper material for this application. The giant surf, on a blustery day pounding the beach, is a power that gives one a sense of aw and respect. Nature has a capacity of giving us moments of beauty that cause a silence in the spectator of it all.

Horses without tether charging there way through the white water, charging, splashing, jumping, running. Freedom of the wind in your face, and water rushing toward shore as they charge on, in the game catch me if you can, joyously playing out before your eyes.

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“When I am in the sand blasting booth I often get in to a zone that is called time bound. This is where time shrinks and expands I forget about all that is surrounding me for the time being, the only thing in the world is the glass in front of me.

I concentrate on the art that I drew days before, following the line where I am carving (blasting) a piece of work literally one 1/4 of an inch at a time. I locate the sandblast material and watch the glass move away like melting ice. I spend days rendering pieces, pausing as my energy fades, take a break eat, hydrate, then go back in for 2 - 3 hour sits at a time. . 

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Blustery winds create the high clouds, framing the wind, surf, and sea undulating in the mid section. The waves rising up lunging to shore in a release of natures power. White water being blown back by the wind into flames, pushing the water again and again to tear the water apart into tiny droplets of mist. All this energy is what goes into a passion for life. To stand on shore witnessing the beauty of natures magnificent presence unfolding before you eyes.