ABOUT THE SCULPTOR - - - -

• Born 1935 in Haynesville, Louisiana, the eldest of six children; two brothers and three sisters.
  
• Grew up in Magnolia, Arkansas, graduated from Magnolia High School in 1953 and attended Southern State College's engineering school, now SAU; Southern Arkansas University.
  
• Received his BS in Physics from Centenary College in Shreveport, La in 1958.
  
• Married Martha Sue Wilson, his high school sweetheart and raised four children in Shreveport.
  
• They presently have fourteen grandchildren.
  
• Was a successful real estate developer for over thirty years, awarded CCIM in early 1970's.
  
• Hobbies are tennis, flying, sking, music, barbershop singing, computer, and poker tournaments.
  
• Current Chairman of the Red River Sculpture Society which he and six other sculptors formed in 1994.
  
• Created the RRSS sculpture-lease plan for office buildings, hospitals, and public areas.
  
• Pioneered the design of special bits for the air-chisel he uses for his sculpture.
  
• Pioneered the use of construction material "EFS" for large out door sculpture he named "ArtStone"
  
• Created the Golden Heritage Sculpture Program using "Hollow Stone" to honor our past.
  
• Inducted into the Sculpture Hall of Fame in 1998
  
• Organized the Visual Arts Hall of Fame in 1998.
  
• Moved to Little Rock in the fall of 2001.
  
• Arkansas League of Artists Director 2004-2005
  
• Past Member Arkansas Sculptor's Guild