Mind Your Hands, Lads

After a 35-year career in advertising, Spiker returned to his love of studio art. His artwork has become the focus of his daily life since becoming a bilateral below-the-knee amputee in 2011. His subject matter is inspired primarily by nature and by humor. “Humans are not the only funny creatures – so are wild critters.” He has painted in watercolor, acrylic and oil, and sculpted in wood, plaster, plastic resin and welded steel. Spiker studied studio art at Ohio Wesleyan University and welded steel sculpture under Stan Smokler. His first gallery show as a sculptor was with Stan Smokler at Wilmington’s Blue Streak Gallery in June 2006. He has also exhibited at The Carspecken-Scott Gallery, JD Kurtz Gallery, a b-c, The Mill, The Delaware Contemporary and The Delaware Art Museum.