I know it isn’t even Halloween yet, nor has school even started around here, but since I have Holiday shows coming up in a few months, I have to start planning.  Every year I plan on making Christmas ornaments, and inevitably I run out of time, and say, “I will make some next [...]

  For the longest time (years) I have tried to figure out the “bowl” form. Ironically, I loved to make teapots, a much more complicated form in ceramics. In the teapot, there is the spout, the lid, the knob, the handle, and the teapot body. Trying to combine all those components into a unified piece [...]

  For the past few years I have been incorporating animal motifs on the surfaces of my work. It started with deer, inspired by chinese porcelains. These deer were stylized with dots and simplified floral motifs.   My interpretation of using deer was mostly with using it’s silhouette.                   [...]