y name is Daniel De Vries.  My family and I live on a farm near Ste. Rose du lac, Manitoba, Canada.
Growing up on the farm I've had ample opportunity to work with my hands and discover the joy of creating things.  Today I still farm for a living.  Working with iron has grown to be both work and a pleasure for me.  After a welding course, a small blacksmithing course, plus much personal study, ironwork has grown to be a business in addition to the family farm.  My desire to do what I do with iron stems from my deeper desire to reflect the remnants of beauty in a sometimes ugly world.  Does that sound melodramatic?  Let me put it this way.  I have a inward need to create things.  Making things beautiful reminds me of how God is beautiful.