Artist's Statement

My pottery is made by hand, by my hands alone, with the use of a few small hand tools. I form each pot without the use of a potter's wheel or other major piece of equipment because I like the tactile experience of immediate and direct contact with soft malleable clay. I enjoy seeing and feeling the clay's response to the actions of my hands.

My work is meant to stimulate the imagination and the viewer's sense of fantasy while bringing to mind details of the natural land-or-sea-scape though organic forms; to renew our sense of connection to nature using the colors of earth and autumn, the textures of sand and stone, and the forms of leaves, qourds, shells, seed pods, driftwood and flowers. These are the details of forest and ocean, of the earth, the source of our existence.

My work is not meant to represent specific objects found in nature, but to remind us of the various essential aspects and details of these images. They are echoes of the natural world which nurtures and supports us.

The functional reality of this pottery serves to connect our daily activities of eating and socializing with those essential details of the natural world, and reminds us of them while answering our human needs to make the special from the ordinary, to ritualize and to make new traditions for ourselves.

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