I am a very spiritual person and use my art practice to foster enlightenment, much as a Buddhist uses meditation. I believe that there is a magical, unknown world that exists on a similar plane to ours. Personal experiences of the supernatural influence my work greatly. My work is largely about transformations—about taking diverse materials and creating something new and different or reflective of historic and unexplained events.
I am continually experimenting and combining precious gems, pearls and metals with found objects. For the last 30 years, I have cultivated the traditional metal working skills I gained in art school, but I also enjoy breaking the rules by melting, fusing, piercing and burning materials to bring out their natural beauty. That combination of traditional and creative—of left brain and right brain—is how I see the world around me, so it is not surprising that it appears consistently in my work.