About Dennis...

I was born and raised in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York. In my career before moving to Florida I worked with metal shaping, welding, and designing for a major corporation in New York. Attending a school for blacksmiths at Peters Valley Craft Education Center in northwestern New Jersey brought out additional forms and expressions in my work. I now reside in St. Augustine, Florida where I am a practicing sculptor-blacksmith.

With 32 years of experience working with steel, I have found the best creative way of forming steel is to heat it on a coal-fired forge and then hammer the steel by hand.

All my sculptures are one of a kind and are not cast. An idea will come to my mind, I will think about the size and weight of it, the expression on the face or the free flowing plant leaf of a fern. Forming these sculptures with a different weight of each hammer blow can bring about the texture, softness and life-like appearance of each finished piece... complete story