I am a ceramic artist living and working in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Seattle. I got my start with clay at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin and then started to pursue it again at Lily and the People which was a delightful clay studio in my neighborhood that is sadly now gone.

I eventually was able to create a small home studio and it has grown over the years so that I finally have a working studio with room enough to move around comfortably! No more pottery wheel on a plastic tarp in the living room.

My main focus is on the delightful textural surfaces I can find in clay. Most humans find such pleasure in pressing objects into clay, our fingers, a stick, a shell, whatever might make a mark. That fascination has been fueling my creative fire for over 25 years and I expect it will be my muse until my body no longer cooperates!

I started out mainly as a wheel thrower but the call to the textured surface has meant a shift to hand building so that I can incorporate textures made while the clay is still flat.