William was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and has always lived in New England, appreciating the region’s landscape, history and culture. He graduated from Providence College in Rhode Island with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. He worked seventeen years for ITT Technical Institute teaching electronics. William has since moved on from teaching and is now engaged in wood sculpting fulltime. He came to love the earth and started gathering sticks from the Vermont woods on land he owned and began assembling simple sculptures to give to friends and family as gifts. He became fascinated with rocks and stones and incorporating those into his wood sculptures. In 2003, he and his wife of 5 years, moved to Cummington, Massachusetts where he quickly setup a new workshop and started crafting a new generation of wood objects.

William’s new wood and workshop is an old post and beam shack in the backyard of his Cummington home. He uses few power tools and relies on his hands, chisels and simple tools to craft a new generation of wood sculptures that incorporate the unique stones he gathers from the local terrain near his home and other places around the country. William has also gravitated towards finer and exotic woods, which he melds with these rare and unusual stones to make truly unique forms of art pieces and collectibles. He sees each piece of work as an individually hand-carved piece of sculpture, each one engraved with his initials and the date of creation. He also finishes each piece with orange oil wax which results in a smooth, natural finish that is consistent with his purpose and love of wood, rocks and the earth.

You can see many of William’s fine hand crafted goods right here on Artisans of the Berkshires. You might also see him and his work at any number of arts and crafts shows around New England - he participated in twelve shows in 2009! William also has work in quite a few Berkshire galleries and shops and he’s a member of the Becket Fine Arts Center, which almost exclusively exhibits artwork from the hill town artists here in western Massachusetts. Hopefully, you will find his work on Artisans of the Berkshires as enamoring and precious as he intended them to be!