I work with acrylic paint, found objects, scrap, metal, concrete, photography, and nature itself. Scroll down to see my gallery.

I received basic training in painting and sculpture at Tulane University, New Orleans. many years ago. My professors gave me good grades, but they were not encouraging of my talent. “You’ve worked very hard in my class, harder than any of the other students,” one of them said to me kindly. ”But I think you should choose a different professional direction.”

Which I did. Nonetheless, I dabbled with art projects over the years, and I have always maintained a keen interest in art.*

But I would not have called myself a visual artist, much less an active one, until after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2022.

Driven by boredom and isolation, like many other people, I started making things. When an illness forced me into early retirement two years later, the habit of regularly sketching, painting, assembling things into sculptures, and thinking of those and other things I was making as art, had taken hold.

My work has never been shown in a professional gallery. That is unlikely to change, and I consider myself a happy amateur. In that spirit, I present here is a selection of my artwork, in a virtual gallery. Enjoy. Comments and inquiries welcome, just write me via the Contact page.

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* “Dabble”, in the text above, may be an understatement. In the late 1990s, I started to plan a huge, participatory global art project, and Donella Meadows named me “Director of Arts and Culture” at her newly created institute.

When I realized that labeling my global project as “art” would mean that people would treat the sustainability substance of it less seriously, reducing the chances of actually impacting the world, I re-conceived the whole thing as a set of sustainability education and training initiatives.

I did these initiatives — which involved getting people to make physical models that symbolised movement towards an agreement on sustainability action — through my consulting firm and its global network. No one outside the firm knew that I secretly considered the whole program as an art project, my own small attempt to “hack the world” with art. Parts of the resulting program are still in use today. You can get a flavour of this program on the archived Facebook Page for one of the related global initiatives we ran, Pyramid 2012.