Traveling, living, and observing, has exposed Rod to a variety of art styles, mediums, and messages.

"I strive to see beyond the literal and narrative, to create work that is contemplative, and expressive, yet conscious of traditional fundamentals."

Rod's goals are to see the abstract forms in nature and express these forms in sculpture by marrying the components of discipline, and creativity, to express a concept rather than an image. Rod's reputation has been cemented with credibility by winning multiple awards from the National Sculpture Society, and election to Fellow of the National Sculpture Society (NY). Rod Studied Studio Arts at Montana State University 1991-94, Served apprenticeships with Floyd Tennison Dewitt, FNSS of Bozeman, MT, and Kent Ullberg, NA, FNSS of Loveland, CO. Rod  is  both on the Teaching Faculty of The Scottsdale Artist School, and The Campbell Center For The Study of American Sculpture at Brookgreen Gardens, Pawley's Island  SC. He was also instrumental in helping start the Equine Sculpture Program at The Culver Academy, Culver Indiana. Rod teaches numerous workshops every year and is in the permanent collections of The National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, The Leanin' Tree Museum, Boulder, Colorado, and Brookgreen Gardens Museum of American Sculpture, as well as in private collections around the world.

Rod's work has been featured in the book "Sculptors of the Rockies", Southwest Art Magazine, Big Sky Journal, The Bozeman Chronicle, Western Art and Architecture, Fine Art Connoisseur, Western Art Collector,  and Pulse Magazine. 

Rod is avid outdoorsman, and currently lives in Bozeman, Montana, and has a studio/gallery in The Emerson Cultural Center, in historic downtown Bozeman. A consummate student of art, Rod continually searches for his own truth and language. Studying past and present masters, Rod explores his art as a metaphor of the human condition. Rod strives to see beyond the literal and narrative, to create work that is contemplative, and expressive, yet conscious of traditional fundamentals.