My colorful pottery is made for use in the kitchen. Mugs, cups, bowls, plates and vases are my main designs. I also make sculptures that are a reflection of my spiritual life process and stacking totems I call “garden spires”.

As a young child I enjoyed making things with my hands. I took a ceramics class in high school and learned the basics, I was hooked. I went to West Virginia University to be on the swim team and major in art. I ultimately majored in ceramics and received my B.F.A. in 1985. I continued on to Ohio University and graduated with my M.F.A. in 1987. My thesis show was entitled “Tableware”.

My colorful functional pots are intended for use in the kitchen. When I am at shows I watch people as they smile at my work. I like the idea of the user having an intimate relationship with a mug or bowl. The pot potentially creates happiness and/or it really feels good to hold so they are drawn to using it daily. My intention for my pottery/sculpture is to be an energetic blessing to the user, thus the name empowered pottery.

I often throw a piece on the wheel and alter it to create my distinctive forms. I enjoy making parts, putting them together and hand-building with clay too. Through the use of diagonal line, texture, form and color, I want to create movement in an otherwise inanimate object. I use a variety of “printed” textures, images and themes that run through my work and that are personal to me. Flowers, the sun, leaves, spirals, the heart, water, and fish inspire deeper meaning in my expression.
I recently have been using my pottery forms in sculptures as a link to pottery forms of the past . My newest sculptures are an exciting exploration of my process of growth and uplifting messages. They are an ongoing expression of my process as a conscious being on a spiritual path. The light will prevail.

Inspiration comes from the nature realms, the ocean, the sun where I feel my best connection to the whole. Only then I am truly divinely inspired.
I currently live in Milton DE. and create in a friends studio in Lewes.