Paige Tooker owns and operates The York Art Foundry Inc, a full-service art foundry, which produces sculpture for artists, galleries, museums, architects and designers worldwide. In the early 1980s Tooker worked at The Johnson Atelier where she first acquired her bronze casting skills, casting iron, aluminum, plastics and some composites. She worked for the Johnson Atelier as a ceramic shell technician and then primarily in the sand casting department. She has become one of the top patina technicians in the business today.