rear view of bronze sculpture giulietta capuleti

Lance was born 1968 to a family of travelling Americans in Thailand. His family then spent 7 years in Tehran before returning to the father's hometown in Oroville, Washington and then Wenatchee.

Lance served 4 years in the Unites States Army mostly in Wurzburg Germany, then earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Washington State University and worked in Seattle for a number of years, while pursuing his artistic studies.

Lance studied at the Seattle Academy of Fine Art for several years and then chose to continue his rigorous academic study of figurative sculpture at the Florence Academy of Art in the renaissance city of Florence, Italy.

Lance is a graduate from the Florence Academy of Art sculpture program, class of 2008. He splits his time between Florence and Seattle.