I love working in clay!

Its versatility as a medium allows me to use many techniques to express my concepts.  At the same time, it forces me to develop a wide range of skills to achieve the results I’m seeing in my mind.

The raku pottery I make is an exploration of creating a form, developing a design to enhance it, choosing glazes to further the relationship, and using firing techniques to complete bringing the piece to life.  That moment is one of magic and pure joy.  

Recently I've been throwing the shapes of many of my Art Deco/Arts and Crafts inspired raku pieces in white stoneware, and then exploring different glazes inside and out and sometimes overlapping on the handles and rims.

My line of Implied Landscape plates and platters is where overlapping glazes make the designs.  The flow and interaction of the poured glazes are both challenging and exciting, no piece looking like any other after firing.