Growing up in Alaska with adventurous, supportive parents, was truly a blessing. As a homesteading family living in a one-room cabin with no electricity, a wood stove for cooking, and limited resources, creativity wasn’t only fun but necessary. It’s amazing what a person can create with a little imagination and salvaged “treasures”.

My current “artistic chapter” started as usual, in a salvage yard sifting through aluminum plating for my welding art class project. Instead, I found a barrel with short sections of multi-stranded, aluminum electrical wire. I bought a few sections, stripped off the sheathing, separated and cleaned the strands, and started crafting a few metal flower bouquets. It wasn’t long before I was back at the salvage yard searching for aluminum stock to make an armature for a model sculpture. That led to my present passion; sculpting with repurposed aluminum wire. As the only artist anywhere sculpting with “looped wire,” it’s been challenging but wonderfully rewarding.

I transform recycled aluminum wire, into elegant, figure sculptures

To inspire my grandchildren and leave a legacy they will pass along to their children.