Christopher is a talented and versatile artist who takes every opportunity to create in any way that he can. He is an accomplished classically trained cellist with a gifted ear for improvisation who has played and recorded with orchestral ensembles as well as rock groups. He sings and plays guitar and can often be found playing various other instruments in his growing collection including a bass, mandolin, and electric cello.

His first love has always been in visual art. “As a child, my parents gave me the chore of taking out the trash, until one day they discovered that I had taken all of the clothes out of my drawers, thrown them into my closet, and had filled my drawers with ‘art supplies’ a.k.a. ‘trash.’ I was not allowed to take out the trash anymore.” Christopher comes by the love of art and music honestly. His mother was an art teacher and his father is a music minister. “I was doomed to be right-brained…Just don’t ask me to solve a math problem!”

Christopher has spent his life honing these artistic and creative skills in any way that he could find. He worked for a glass blower through high school while actively participating in Art, Orchestra, Choir, and even was captain of the robotics team. He then went on to obtain his BFA in Sculpture from the University of North Texas. During his college career he apprenticed with Patrick Thaden and learned the arts of blacksmithing and metalworking while assisting in the construction of full suits of medieval armor. He learned to weld while working on building oil rigs in Houston.

He moved to New Mexico for a time and apprenticed with the late world-renowned artist Luis Jimenez working on a giant fiberglass sculpture commissioned for the Denver International Airport. Amongst all of this he has also taken classes learning ceramics, stained glass, watercolors acrylics and oils, and numerous other artistic disciplines. Currently he is blessed to be working with the extremely talented artist and sculptor Dan Pogue of Pogue Studio and Foundry located in Marble Falls, TX. He works as an employee four days out of the week and is permitted use of the facilities on the fifth day to produce his own work.

Christopher’s sculptures have been displayed in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and all over Texas in the Houston, DFW and Austin areas. He has won numerous awards and is always looking to the next piece. “But first and foremost I am and always will be a student. I have been so blessed to learn and work under so many talented individuals, but there is just so much out there. I don’t believe anything can ever be fully mastered. One can always be better, and learn more. One of the greatest blessings God has given us is found in our smallness, and our human desire or hunger to be more, without ever fully achieving. The constant striving for more is so beautiful, and our absolute dependence on him is what life is all about.”