about: “The vessels I make are lyrical, sometimes whimsical, sometimes more serious, some more sculptural, holding a idea rather than a substance. They all sing a celebration of life. I work abstractly as well as figuratively. Even though my work often deals with loss, impermanence, and death, it maintains a feeling of joy for life, and a freeing of the spirit. In construction of my ceramic sculpture and functional work I use a variety of techniques. My early sculpture was frequently not fired and pieces “decomposed” when installed on natural outdoor sites. Construction techniques I use include wheel thrown, slab built, coil, altered, and assembled forms. I often combine carving with applied drawing. Though I feel comfortable with and have used reduction firing, most recently, I have used the electric kiln for firing my stoneware. The colorants are usually under-glazes with a variety of clear, translucent and opaque midrange glazes. Much of my work has to do with being a woman, wife, and mother. Water, earth, air, and fire (prima mater) are central to both the world’s and humanity’s existence. I think about the elements and their effects on each other, the community, and each of us. For example water; rivers, oceans, waterfalls, lakes, ponds, pools, tears of sadness, tears of love, tears of joy, fluidity, floods, purity, and baths, all affect the psyche like they affect clay. Clay is earth, malleable and changeable with the mixing of air, water, and the exposure to fire. My feelings are universal and the symbols I use have been used since the most ancient of times.”
 
 
 
 
 
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