Pottery as Living Art
My surfaces are a subtle and complex tangle of floral motifs, designed and adapted from the natural and art worlds. These flowers connect me with my childhood growing up in the rural hills of California. Wildflowers represent place and time through their cycle from seed to bloom rooted in their environment of soil and climate. Their resilience gives me hope as I witness them emerging through the frozen ground in spring or returning to their familiar spot after a devastating wildfire. Captured in glaze, my designs bring the joy of spring and summer all year round.
Using a palette of glazes from matte to glossy I map out the decoration with the intent of collaborating with the heat in the kiln to flux and move glaze across surfaces. I welcome happenstance and embrace the power of the heat as it transforms wet earth to ceramic and ground rocks to a multitude of glazes.
Handmade
Pottery is a living art in its ability to enhance our daily lives. My forms embody generosity and communicate utility that welcomes interaction. With sturdiness and thoughtful volume, my pots welcome being held, and lend themselves to continual use from the table, to the sink, and back again.
Leather Hard Butter dishes and spoon rests in progress
Throwing at the wheel
thrown Cakeplates drying
Butter dish ready to be bisqued
Handbuilt plates
To achieve my surfaces I use multiple glazing techniques including tape, wax, glaze inlay and layering. Each color is a different glaze that I have an understanding of a range of possibilities that might happen when they are fired, always excited to see the final results.
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