In 1972 I enrolled in Syracuse University, studying sculpture under Rodger Mack.  In addition to art classes, I explored other interests such as modern physics, philosophy and religion.   While at Syracuse I met and married my first wife, an undergraduate student majoring in parapsychology.  In 1975 I graduated with a BFA in sculpture and we traveled across country to Eugene, Oregon where my daughter was born in1976.  In September of that year, I began working on my master’s degree at the University of Oregon in Eugene.  It was my very good fortune to be in the last group of students taught by the Czechoslovakian sculptor, Jan Zach.  In 1978, I graduated with a MFA in sculpture and moved back east to New York.

Shortly thereafter, I was hired by the architectural firm Edward Larrabee Barnes Associates to select the granite for the façade of the 43-story IBM Building in New York City.  The job required me to move to Lac Megantic, Canada, a small town in the Quebec Province, for two years. While there, I rented a large, empty 7-Up factory which I converted into an apartment for my family and art studio for myself. When the assignment ended so did my marriage and I relocated to Soho, New York. It was then I worked with Fox and Fowle Architects as an architectural field representative on three high rise projects in downtown Manhattan. Longing to work on more personal projects, I went on to design and build a series of private homes in New York, New Hampshire, Vermont and Canada.

In 1992, I became a partner, co-designer and builder of The Cooler, an eclectic music club in the historic Meat Packing District of New York. City.  Two years later, I co-designed and built a second successful music club, Baktun, also in the Meat Packing District.  The clubs featured music and live entertainment and were in operation for nearly 10 years.   I was fortunate to become friends with a number of musicians who were performing in the city at that time. My greatest honor was the personal friendship I developed with the late, great, legendary bass player, Jaco Pastorius.

While in New York City I also worked with Lights in Motion International on a number of custom metal fabrication projects including the Motown Café record and radio tower project on West 57th Street. In addition, I worked as a member of the art department on a variety of independent film and video projects.  While on assignment for a Queen Latifa music video project with Green Turtle Productions, I was given a minor acting role as a New York City cop searching through the night for an elusive underground party in the video Black Hand Side.

As the year 2000 approached, I decided to leave New York and moved to Newmarket, New Hampshire where I worked as a shop supervisor in an architectural millwork company during the day and a bass player in an original rock band at night.  It was around that time I met and married my second wife, a local singer-songwriter and University of New Hampshire art history student. We lived in Lee, New Hampshire while I worked on a variety of commercial construction projects and currently live in Deerfield, New Hampshire where, in 2007, I opened JLR Studios.

Although I have been involved in the arts throughout my lifetime, it is truly a privilege to have my own studio where I can once again focus on the communication of thoughts and ideas through sculpture, painting and music.