Working in clay, doing pottery has enabled me to express the best of my artistic and scientific sides.
It started early. I vividly remember the cracked surfaces of dried mud puddles and the smoothest silky clay between my toes. I was digging clay out of the creek banks and making pottery at age eight, drying it on the side of the sandbox.
In college I majored in chemistry and minored in clay sculpture. The magic in chemistry was what attracted me, the changing colors, the formation of crystals, the creative alchemy, and always the quest for knowledge, the how and why.
Enamored with pottery, my relationship with the potter's wheel and clay started in 1995 and I began selling my work four years later. Through clay and glazes, I continue to find the magic in color changes and textures, revisiting chemicals and minerals that I once used in the chemistry lab, enjoying the alchemy even more and still searching for the understanding of the process.
My work is in mid-range and high fired stoneware, frequently showing an Asian influence, whether the simplicity of the Japanese or the strong forms of the Chinese bronzes.
