My adventure with clay began as a child while I was busy making mud pies under the swing set. A few years later I was sculpting animals in a summer school program. Fast forward quite a few decades, I signed up for classes at a local pottery studio and was under the spell of clay. I started by throwing on the potter’s wheel, honing my skills and acquiring techniques. Lately, hand building dominates my practice, with the use of patterns. Paper patterns are familiar, from years of first watching my Mom sewing, then sewing myself. Templates give me the freedom to experiment with texture, color, and embellishments. I work with a variety of clay bodies, mostly stoneware and fire in mid-range electric kiln and from time to time, raku.
Pottery allows the joy to create, the challenge to collaborate and see the world through a new lens. Clay presents unlimited possibilities in tactile expression and function. I make my work with the intent to both amuse and delight the onlooker. I would hope you to want to pick up my pots and explore what I have created. Pieces of art are the basis for our self-expression in our homes and lives. I feel blessed that my pieces just happen to be functional as well.
