about Chris
Chris was born in the southwest and as a young man, moved with his family across numerous country and state borders, giving him a broad cultural perspective. He spent much of his adult life in the Atlanta area where he met, fell in love with and married his wife and launched two wonderful children before relocating back home to the west. With a long professional career as a structural engineer, Chris developed left-brain skills in precision, geometry and analysis which combine well with right-brain creativity, imagination and 3-D visualization to create his form of sculpture. “I can get ‘happy-lost’ in the planning, measurements, scales and armatures and I obsess over the process, details and textures required to portray the often abstract intent of my sculpture. I yearned but struggled to work in a more loose and free-form manner, but I have since resolved that, though this is not the sculptor I've chosen to be, it is the sculptor I am and cannot, despite great efforts, deny.”
Chris is especially intrigued by classical, figurative sculpture juxtaposed against modern, abstract or even absurd interactions and environments to portray layers of emotions or statements about the common human condition: our nature, our potential, our strengths and our faults. “My work is not solely about beauty, but it is intended to be a message delivered through my unique perspective but universally and viscerally understood and hopefully, with ever-increasing technical skill.”
Now with a studio in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Chris is thriving as a sculptor with his own voice and signature style.
Each bronze is cast with the lost wax method and has a unique patina finish, hand applied by artisans at the foundry and under Chris’s direction.