Modeling Philosophy

I am an artist, and I model to tell a story.

I have farmed my entire adult life and am no stranger to the struggles and triumphs that comes with depending on the land to pay your bills. For me, the story of most farms is written in their fencerows, in the worn tractors, bent, rusted equipment and the neglected buildings that contain their lives. I strive to capture that struggle in my art. Honest wear is a central tenant to the parsimony of farm life and the leaking, rusting, worn machines can be seen as a metaphor for the men that ran them and the families that supported them.

My modeling goal is to capture those feelings of nostalgia when we see an old, abandoned tractor, sinking into the earth, under some sprawling oak, in the middle of a wheat field it used to rule.

No detail is too small for me to spend hours on if it means I can draw the viewer in and make them forget they are looking at a sliver of agricultural life...in scale.