I started making these pieces off and on over the past couple of decades as a hobby. A two-week program at Haystack Mountain and another one at the North Bennet Street School helped as did the guidance of Stanley Steinhoff of Rockland, ME and Peter Turner of South Portland, ME. I like the combination of natural and found objects and finished furniture. Moving to Maine stimulated more use of natural and found objects in wood collages that sometimes stand on their own and at other times are incorporated into furniture.