A graduate of Middlebury college in 1985 with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Studio Art, I began making furniture professionally in 1986. The building process is very enjoyable to me and hand-tools are an important part of that. Spoke shaves and hand-planes leave me ankle deep in shavings as I shape chair parts or plane a table top flat. Building cabinets satisfies engineering inklings while building chairs quenches the desire to work sculpturally. My family has always been involved with wood. My father does construction as a hobby and my brother is an architect. I can remember my grandfather tinkering with furniture repair in his tiny shop on my great grandfather's workbench. Today I use that same bench.
In years past, I was the resident woodworker at the Shelburne Craft School and then I started The Wood School in Burlington Vermont where I ran my own program of woodworking classes. I have also taught these classes at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, The WoodenBoat School and Yestermorrow Design / Build School.
Since I moved to Waltham and built my house and shop, my focus has been on building custom furniture of my own design. While I am still happily continuing will filling orders for my work, I have decided to offer a few of my favorite classes again. I plan to add more classes in the future but these few have been very popular over the years. I hope to see you in one of my classes.