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I have been making ceramic art since 1987, when I chose to focus my life’s work on making beautiful objects for every day use. From 1990-1993, I studied ceramics formally at the University of Colorado at Boulder, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree. Since that time, I have migrated from
the Rocky Mountains to the desert outside of Santa Fe New Mexico. Wherever I have landed, I have always operated a studio, taught others about clay, and tracked it through the house myself.
I continue to make both functional and decorative work, including tableware, tile, and vases for my beloved sunflowers.
The focus of my work highlights a continuing interest in the textural/surface possibilities of clay, along with the forms and imagery that refer to my interest in the natural world and to my
childhood spent in the Southern California ocean. I utilize both slabs and wheel-thrown forms to construct work which I hope is loose, lively, and visually interesting. I also use photos, embossed paper, and fabric stamps from India to enhance the surface qualities of the clay. All of my work is made from a combination of stoneware and porcelain clay bodies which is then electric fired to Cone 6. It has always been important to me to let the clay speak, to allow for it’s fluidity, sensuousness, and spontaneity. Journeying through the ceramic cycle; from clay’s incredible softness, to the fire of the kiln, and returning back again to stone, never ceases to produce in me a sense of awe and immense gratitude that I get to spend my life participating in it.
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