If I Could Start Over

If I Could Start Over

Saturday was my seventieth birthday. When I woke up this morning, it was from a dream in which I was standing in a store of some sort…like an old country store…and I was looking across the counter at dozens and dozens of pigeonholes, or square cubicles....
Over Forty Years of Welded Vision

Over Forty Years of Welded Vision

In 1968 when Veloy and I came back to Utah, I set up my first studio in my dad’s old chicken coop in Alpine, the small farming community where I had grown up about thirty miles south of Salt Lake City. We had two children by that time and not a penny to our...
A Personal Introduction

A Personal Introduction

In the mid-1980’s and into the 1990’s I wrote a weekly column in Salt Lake City’s major daily newspaper, The Deseret News. In all, I wrote over six hundred columns over a ten-year period before moving on to other things. Titled *Meanderings”,...
The Christmas Pageant

The Christmas Pageant

Dennis has created a beautiful Nativity set exclusively for Deseret Book. Dennis is known for his wonderful sculptures of children so it was very natural that he chose to do the Nativity as a Christmas Pageant. They are now in stock at you local Deseret Book and on...
Black Rock

Black Rock

Dennis was recently in an exhibit at the Williams Fine Art center featuring Black Rock.Dennis had four pieces in the exhibit ranging over different times, and all of them were very well received.Black Rock is what is leftover of a volcanic plug over looking the Great...