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Recent Major Commissions:

"Healing Garden

A four piece work devoted to healing through art. Elements include 24 carat gold glass, sculpted jade & basalt.

Location: Saint Anthony's Hospital, Gig Harbor, WA

"Aria"

4 piece suite comprised of a fountain "Ode to the Columbia" created from a 6,500 pound broken stone. Swimming through and around are 70 bronze powder coated red salmon. "Aria" a mosaic settee comprised of 15,000 pieces of glass representing the bounty of Quincy valley, 2 basalt sculptures - "The Unfolding", representative of the lush Spring & Summer plant life, and "Gray Hawk" representative of native peoples, freedom of birds and elegance of prarie.

Location: Quincy, WA

"The Gathering Place"

5 piece suite composed of four benches, a 28,000 pound jadeite sundial stone with a 30 inch stainless steel sphere gnomen. This stone has a bore hole through which one can see Polaris, our North star, at night. Other bore holes are "tuned" which can be used to play music. This work is in a K-12 school. It has may elements such as gemstones, arrow heads, stone axe heads, petro-glyphic ancient spiral sea shells & others to delight, amaze and inform everyone young and old.

Location: Charles Wright Academy, University Place, WA

"The Eagles Nest"

A 60 foot town entrance that is comprised of 250,000 pounds of stone! - The largest weighing 65 thousand pounds. Media; Fabricated bronze & stone. This work embodies community, sense of place, music, food home & love.

Location: University Place in Tacoma, WA

"Destiny"

Entrance gate 10'x20'- Stainless steel, powder coat & epoxy resin, LED lighting. Created for a tug boat captain and his wife, this realistic work evokes the sea and life on the sea.

Location: Vashon Island, WA

"2169 Suite"

100,000 pounds - Basalt - This work covers an area of 5 acres. An array of great stones, the largest at 17,000 pounds, aligned with the future solar eclipse in the year 2169 as well as marking and denoting the winter and spring equinox and the summer and winter solstice.

Location: Eatonville, WA

"Raven Discovering Mankind in a Clamshell"

3 carved stones, bronze clamshell and raven (5'x20'x20') with a carved black granite bench.

Location: Stanwood Library, Stanwood, WA

"Looking Up at the Bottom of the Sea"

Acrylic, hand blown & Fused glass - 2'x4'x8'

Location: Gig Harbor, WA

"Menorahs of the Burning Bush"

Hand blown glass & Bronze bezel - 28"x28"x56"

Twin Menorahs flank the alter in the Temple Beth El. These works are the ancient menorahs with seven candles each.

Location: Temple Beth El, Tacoma, WA

"Mystery Exists in the Void"

Stainless steel & colored epoxy resin - 10'x5'x8'

Mankind can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown - This work then, is a portal, a passage.

Location: Peoples Park, Tacoma, WA

  • "Moonstone Starcrown"

Basalt, marble inclusions & stainless steel - 2'x2'x12'

Sculpture as well as a Sundial.

Location: Puyallup Arts Downtown, Puyallup, WA

  • "Tacoma Community College Commission" 2001

250 pound carved red dolomite fountain.

Location: Tacoma, WA

  • "Papillon" 2001

800 pound Stainless steel & carved bronze bench - 7'x6'x3'

Location: Charles Wright Academy, Tacoma, WA

  • "Sun Valley Mosaic"

8'x8' tile mosaic (semi precious & rare stones), Sun Valley, Idaho "2002"

  • "Joy of ancient Rivers"

carved basalt fountain, 15,000 pounds, George Kneeland, Sun Valley, Idaho

  • "Garden Sprite"

Basalt, 600 pounds, Bill Fletcher, Sun Valley, Idaho

  • "Abstraction"

Red Dolomite, 700 pounds, Mike Yudelson, Bambridge Island, Washington

  • "Larson Gates"

Fabricated Bronze and Hammered Copper, Two Gates 9'x14' and Lamps, 1000 pounds, Gig Harbor, Washington "1999"

  • "Zen Lioness"

Basalt, (six pieces) 10,000 pounds, Jack and Betty Shaffer, San Rafael, California

  • "Laughing Zen Child"

Stainless steel and gold leaf, 25 pounds, Steve and Gloria Givens, Gig Harbor, Washington

  • "Migration"

Basalt, 500 pounds, Mr. and Mrs. Goldworthy

  • "Tacoma Theater District Commission" 1993

75,000 pounds carved basalt, 20 bronze dance masks, 31 stainless steel street banners, 20 carved India black granite and stainless steel wall plates.

Location: Tacoma, WA

  • "Endless Summer"

7,000 Pounds Basalt.

Location: Sitka Arts Center, Lincoln Beach, OR

  • "Locomotive Monument" 1988

Steel and baked polychromatic porcelain, 19'x32'

Location: 13th and "A" Street, Tacoma, WA

  • "Sisters" 1983

Two 6' figures - 700 pounds, Cast silicon bronze.

Location: Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA

 

Corporate Collections: (partial list)

  • "Zen Lion"

Basalt, 1000 pounds,

Location: Omaha Life, Omaha, Nebraska

  • "1749"

Restaurant Corporation. Washington D.C.

  • West Venture Development Company.

Encino, California

  • Mr. H. Kawaguchi

Physio Control Corporation. Seattle, Washington

International Collections: (partial list)

  • Sheraton Corporation

Acapulco, Mexico

  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrew White

Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Weyerhaeuser Company

Egawa, Japan

  • Mr. and Mrs. Charcmchai Kositpipat

Bangkok, Thailand

- Listing of additional installations and photos available upon request -