Bryan has an extensive work and personal history in numerous artistic mediums. Most notably in ceramics, including dental ceramics and clay ceramics. He also has experience in screen printing and print making, graphic design, drawing, painting, and film photography.

Creating and making art has been a driving force in Bryan’s life. His passion for working with his hands to take an idea and make it real started at a young age and continues to this day. In grade school he took any available art class he could and continued to do so at Chemeketa Community College and PSU taking courses like ceramics, wax to bronze casting, drawing, design, and print making.

After school, he ventured into the workforce with one of his first jobs at Exit Real World, a local skateboard and snowboard shop. There he learned web design, web sales and customer service. He also had the opportunity to develop and manage the T-shirt screen printing department where he was responsible for producing hundreds of company T-shirts and sweatshirts. This job included designing and editing company logos, producing screens in a dark room, mixing ink to match colors, mounting and registering screens and ultimately printing the shirts using a four-color printing carousel.

Bryan’s next artistic exploration was in dental ceramics at Precision Dental Laboratory and again years later at Artisan Dental Laboratory. He learned everything from waxing, sprueing, pressing E/max, casting metal, seating crowns, checking occlusion and fitting/adjusting contacts, staining, glazing, and stacking PFMs. His focus was mostly on posteriors with some experience on anteriors as well.

After moving to Portland, he was introduced to production ceramics at Mudshark Studios where he has worked on every facet of the process from start to finish including mold making, slip casting, slip mixing, firing kilns, spray glazing, scheduling, and running daily stand-up meetings. He has worked his way up the ladder from an entry level caster to lead caster to glaze room scheduler and finally to his role as production manager.

In the summer of 2021, Bryan had an opportunity to dive back into dental laboratory work as a Cosmetic Waxer at Utah Valley Dental Laboratory. He and his family moved to Utah county in search of a new adventure. In his role at UVDL, Bryan has honed his skills as a waxer and ceramist working on simple single units cases all the way up to very complicated full mouth cases. While at UVDL, Bryan participated in several Functional Aesthetics courses taught by Dr. Mark Montgomery and Dr. David Hornbrook. During these course events, Bryan was responsible for producing wax ups and finishing ceramics for the live patient educational classes. His dedication to superior quality and aesthetics has always set him apart

During his free time, he enjoys skateboarding, fishing and playing disc golf. He has also worked on his own ceramic designs at his home studio (A.K.A. a spare bedroom and backyard) where he produced the ukuleles, milk jugs, mugs and Shmoo. All the mold making, slip casting, sculpting, hand building, buffing and spray painting were done at home while the spray glazing and firing was done at either Mudshark Studios or the Clay Compound, a local ceramic studio.

Bryan lives in Springville, UT with his wife and daughter.