Q: How and when did you decide to become an artist? I actually stumbled onto the art scene seven years ago. Through my one of a kind furniture designs, I had to create scale maquettes or models to determine the viability of each design. Submitting one of these maquettes to a fine craft exhibition was successful and this led to other submissions and the gradual evolution into sculptural work with wood as a medium. The sculptural work progressed from linear and geometric shapes