At the age of 15 I taught myself how to make latex masks and the process of moldmaking. In 1990, when I was 18 I moved to Los Angeles and worked as a makeup artist and lab technician. I enjoyed working behind the scenes and the experience, but the big city was not for me.

I later moved to Portland, Oregon where I started a mask making company called Britton's Concoctions and held latex mask making seminars. I also had a booth at the Saturday Market on the weekends where I sold masks, puppets, props, skull ashtrays and necklaces, etc.

I had made masks for years and just got burned out on being confined with making creatures that fit over a human shaped head. The neck always had to be the same size and it had to be somewhat humanoid. I also found that most of the people who bought my masks did not even wear them but put them on a shelf for display. That is when I came up with the idea of doing alien creature trophy heads. The idea was already out there with the Predator movie and a few dinosaur and dragon trophy heads, but no one had really specialized in it. A line of characters that would be mounted like a deer head and hung on the wall. I originally intended on doing the heads in latex, but was upset that a lot of the first masks I ever made began rotting away and tearing. If I was going to spend this much time sculpting and making these things, I wanted them to last! So I started researching other materials and products. That is when I discovered resin and the resin kit industry. I immersed myself in finding out everything I could on moldmaking, casting and resin kits. I made contacts with people to learn as much as I could and attended my first Wonderfest resin kit convention just to go check it out and get a feel for what this was all about. Well that was it, I was hooked, and the next year I had my first booth at wonderfest. Since then I have gone to several conventions and sold my kits through magazines and on my website.

My motivation has always been the desire to learn from nature and our Creator and to give credit where credit is due which, in my opinion, is to whoever or whatever created life and this universe. The world we live in and the things we see in life are the only reference that people have to create things themselves. So the way I see it, whoever made the world is the greatest monster maker. This is not about religion, it is about the reality of truth. I beleive it is quite obvious that nature is Created and did not evolve by some mistake. If there is a design, there must be a designer behind it. The key to being a good creature designer is to be a good observer of nature and the world around you. I don't really think man creates anything, we just manipulate the Creation mixed with our personal observations and our own unique memories and experiences. Everything on earth is taken from this earth. From computers, to cars, to clay, to sculptures, they are all made from things taken from the earth and it's creations and, therefore, the Creator. As a wise man once said, "Nothing is new under the sun!"

Some of the sculptures people do today blow me away and are truly inspiring but I think that too many artists just look at other artists work for there inspiration. So many designers simply copy other peoples work or do spinoffs of existing popular movie monsters. I am definitely influenced by the great artists out there as well, but I try to do things that are as unique and original as possible, so I cut out the middle man and go straight to the source that started every inspiration throughout time. I try to look at anything I see as if I am seeing it for the first time, this allows me to see things with a fresh, and unbiased perspective.

One of my favorite things to do is to study ancient technology, inventions and mechanical devices, and also to look at ancient paintings and sculptures of creatures, gargoyles and monsters. These early artists and inventors were not biased by television and the modern world. They show us what is universally considered unusual. They were not inspired by Hollywood movie monsters, but they still knew what monsters were. They are morphs and hybrids of everything that scares us on earth. They are glimpses into the unknown, mixed with what is known. I believe that is what scares humans the most, the unknown, But it also intrigues us and sparks our curiousity.

Favorite quote: But ask the animals and they will teach you, or the birds of the air and they will tell you, or speak the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea inform you. Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? Job 12:7-9