As you travel throughout the countryside and towns of America, you can’t help but take notice of the various weathervanes and whirligigs that grace rooftops and gardens as well as those that have made their way into homes and museums as folk art objects for display. Over the past sixteen years, I have developed an increasing interest and passion for this type of folk art. I began collecting antique originals and then started researching folk art objects to handcraft weathervanes, whirligigs and trade signs in the true folk art tradition. Most of the wood used in my work is over one hundred-year-old heart pine salvaged from various 19th century barns and outbuildings in upstate NY. I also incorporate antique copper, tin and iron into my work. Various tools used to handcraft each piece include chisels, draw knives, handsaws and carving knives.

I want to continue this type of American folk art so that it lives on for many years to come. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy handcrafting each and every piece.

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.--Louis Nizer


January 2010
I have been commissioned by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation to reproduce a Cockerel Weathervane circa 1875-1900 from The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum’s permanent collection. This piece, along with other new work, will be on display and for sale in the museum gift shop late summer of 2010.

August 2008
Inducted into the Country Living Guild as the 30th member of the guild. Look for an article on my work in the August 2008 issue of Country Living magazine in print and online.
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