When he wasn’t spending weekends as a street vendor selling his functional pottery and tableware on “The Drag” adjacent to the University of Texas at Austin, he was honing his woodcraft skills designing and building fine furniture and cabinets. This development as a craftsman continued through the 1980s and 1990s when he began to devote more time and energy to the creation of hand-crafted furniture and sculptural pottery. Currently living and working in central Mexico, he has shown his work in numerous exhibitions and galleries.

Today, Nathan’s work incorporates well-crafted, functional design with the use of regional natural resources. The sculptural elements of his pieces explore the diversity and context of the materials he uses.