DUNCAN KIPPEN

I can remember being in my grandfather's, Fred F. Willson's architect studio when I was very young and being entranced watching him draw elaborate designs filled with hand lettering. From then on I was always drawing and painting... I was accepted to graduate school in Seattle but went in a completely different direction to build a cabin in Galllatin Canyon on the land where my grandfather's cabin had stood. I started Woodcraft Signs and shared a space with a woodworker and iron worker in an old barn just off Main Street that was one of Bozeman's early blacksmith's shop.