Artist Statement

My initial love in art was paint. I love the ability of paint to be manipulated to create color and texture on a flat surface that draws your attention and makes you want to reach out and touch it.

After years of working with paint, I took a local pottery class for therapy. I found that clay offers me things that paint cannot. It's the challenge of transforming a lump of mud into something useful using a spinning wheel and my own dexterity and coordination. Clay makes me think ten steps ahead to form, function, and finishings. Once I am done, I still revert back to my love of color and texture with slip and glazes. I not only have my useful platter, but a canvas to paint on as well.

I find that I am most drawn to those pieces I can touch. I incorporate that in my own work by creating pieces that are durable, useful, and colorful. For as much as I want to pick up a piece, I want the viewer to want to do the same with my work. Pick it up. Turn it around. Use it....