I learned to knit a long time ago from my grandmother. She would knit mittens for me and my sisters and for our friend’s families too. In fact my mom came across a grocery bag full of mittens that had never been worn. My grandmother passed away in 2000, so they must have been hiding [...]

As you may have read from an earlier post, I have been making bowls from a slump and press mould for the past few months. I am very happy with the results so far, and they have been selling very well.  Ever since I made the larger (7″diameter) bowls, I have been wanting to make [...]

             There is a reason why they call this the busy-bustling shopping season.  People are geared up and in the shopping mood, looking for gifts for the important people in their lives. And some are just looking for items and art to decorate and transform their homes into their own cozy wintery [...]

For the past couple years I have been compiling equestrian imagery; horses, horseshoes, ribbons, anything that spoke about horse riding and racing. I don’t own a horse. I did take horsemanship 101 in college for a PE credit though. That was quite an experience, which deserves an entire post of its own. All I will [...]

    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.                   [...]

This June I am pleased to announce that I will be the featured artist at the Society of Arts and Crafts Gallery on Newbury Street in Boston.  I have been working diligently in my little studio, getting inventory ready to sell at the gallery shop. Some of the imagery on this work is new, but not [...]

Last Sunday afternoon I visited with a good friend of mine, Julia Skop of Antinomy Designs, in Buffalo, NY.  (You may remember her from a previous post-I made a set of gold rimmed dinner plates for her.) For the past four years Julia has dedicated the entire week before Easter to making pysanky eggs.  She clears [...]