I love functional pottery which is also beautiful and elegant. It is my continuing quest
to create work which will be used daily yet have the feel of luxury. Often my pieces
are inspired directly by my love of cooking and the desire to display even the most
mundane meal in a visually pleasing manner. Shouldn’t the dinner table be a
work of art?
I choose to work in porcelain because of its opposing natures of being one of the
densest materials when fired to high temperature yet being incredibly fluid when
thrown on the wheel. It’s purity lends to a clean, bright color palette and it has a
beautiful ring when gently struck. I carve my pots at the leather hard stage
to give visual and tactile intrigue and also because I simply enjoy the act of it.
Having recently moved to Asheville from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul,
I am finding my work is moving and changing as well. I am being drawn more
toward decorative forms based in classical styles. It is still my wish that the pieces
contain an intimacy – something that asks the beholder to reach out and touch.
