This website was created as a place to put my photographic work. I'm from the USA and now live in Reykjavik, Iceland where I work as a graphic artist and interface designer at a software firm. Examples of my graphic work can be seen on my other website.

My formal training is in fine arts and I graduated from Eastern Kentucky University and from the University of California, Berkeley. After spending a few years in San Francisco, I headed to Iceland, where I've lived since 1988.

Lavatop started with a group of pictures from 1999 that I call A Few Sensual Moments. They were done with a video camera and I originally printed them on art paper with archival inks. I was intrigued by the idea of getting a handmade look using digital technology. I had originally planned to explore the concept of erotica from a woman's perspective since there seem to be so few women creating it, but in the meantime found so much sensuality around me that I created a section of the web called Lavatop Sensual and left it at that. In the spirit of the web, here is a reciprocal link to the fine art page of the Erotica Index. If you know of any interesting woman-made erotica, please send me the link!

Lavatop Multicultural is based on an idea I've had more or less since I came to Iceland. I was amazed at the number of people I was meeting from so many diverse cultures. This is a country of 280,000 people, and my daughter goes to a school with kids of 80 different nationalites. My basic idea is this: if you live in Iceland and you came from somewhere else, you are a candidate for the Multicultural section of the Lavatop. I may extend the rules to include visitors to the country, not that I'm short of material or anything, it's just that it could be fun. I bent the rules once already to include an Icelander who has lived in many different countries.

The Lavatop Journal contains what I would call a collection of snapshots rather than finished artworks. I had so many things I wanted to share with friends and acquaintances, I thought I would just create a section here to share with everybody. You might find local cultural events or a pretty sunrise in this section.

You might be wondering why I chose the name Lavatop. It's just a way of referring to Iceland (an island with volcanic activity), since my photographic work is based on and inspired so much by my surroundings. I wanted to come up with a real name, instead of just calling the web something like "Iceland Art Photo". I found out later that lavatop actually refers to a type of topsoil.

If you would be interested in posing for a photo session, let me know! I'll try to make something artistic from the experience. Drop me an email [Ég tala íslensku]