Reflecting my ardent appreciation for the personal, the unconventional, the often solitary characters in the world, my earliest pieces were robust biography like portraits of prominent California politicians…..These works (Governor Jerry Brown ’80-’82,  Speaker of the  House, Assemblyman Willie Brown ’86, later Mayor of San Francisco)  were colourful, controversial and redundant with iron humor like  the personalities they represented.  The political figures expanded the public’s familiarity with my work and led to a number of private commissions.

 A life change led me away from  creating political caricatures and from clay altogether for a time.  In 1995,  returning to my roots of my Scandinavian ancestors in  Norway ,  I then spent the summer with my cousins at the birthplace of my father at Flakk.   There I began working with clay once again……………I  discovered a reconnection and deeper kinship with the spiritual and with my place as an artist.  Resulting from this experience was a major shift in consciousness and the subsequent direction of my work.

Currently,  I find myself creating colourful and sometimes whimsical pieces which tend to make people smile……my work probably could be called California Funk Art .   When I return to Sacramento in the middle of  August, I will delve for a short time back into the world of politics and  create a sculpture of California new Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.