For the past twenty one years, I have designed and crafted furniture on a full-time basis. Until 1997, I had a shop in Kensington, MD. My greatest personal satisfaction resulted from the design and construction of the furniture in my former church in Rockville, MD. This includes the altar, the ambo, the presider's chair, candle stands and a number of chairs and tables. I now reside in Caroline County, MD where I maintain a shop and studio on the West Bank of the Choptank River: West Bank Studios.

My logo is of Don Quixote. It is from the cartoon for a painting I did many years ago as a salute to my Spanish heritage and it serves as a reminder to continue to persevere, as did the "ingenious gentleman" in the Cervantes' tale. My work also has been influenced substantially by Japanese, Shaker, Mission and Arts and Crafts styles, and by the woodworkers Greene & Greene, Nakashima, Maloof and Kirby, not to mention my father and older brothers.

In the late eighties, I exhibited some pieces at a Maryland Art Place show. I believe the statement I prepared for the show catalog best summarizes my motivation and philosophy:

"...I am engaging in an activity that insures spontaneous experimentation, which I attempt to couple with craftmanship. This more often than not leads to an aesthetically pleasing, unique and coherent whole. The intrinsic worth of what I am doing is the experience of pursuing an art form as a process, which in turn serves as the impetus for continuing the sometimes exhausting activity surrounding furniture making. Without the prospect of inventing new forms or using old forms in new ways, my fascination with furniture would not last. Making furniture by hand is hard work, but that is the price one pays for the privilege of [engaging in] creative activity."