About Me

As early as I can recall, I’ve always been captivated by color, shape, and beauty. My love of art really came to fruition in my early teens when given the opportunity to explore a wide variety of expressions and mediums including drawing, painting, print-making, multi-media, and of course, ceramics. Sadly, my Junior High School program did not have throwing clay on a potter’s wheel as an option. My love of art was largely set aside, devoting the majority of my time and energy to my Nursing career. About fifteen years ago, I genuinely began to address my need to express myself through art.

I recall one Saturday while attending Ray at Night in North Park, San Diego, when the opportunity to find my groove presented itself.  Very clearly, I remember saying to myself, “I am going to die if I don’t find a creative outlet”.  That same evening, I was walking through the door of The San Diego Art Department where I met Gabriel Reed, a talented clay artist, and teacher. Within a year of starting to throw clay on the wheel, I secured a Studio Membership because, simply stated, “I just couldn’t get enough.” 

I love to take a lump of clay and transform it into a thing of beauty.  Most of my shapes are classic vessels with occasional forays into more organic, less-classical forms.  I am especially attracted to the placement of three-dimensional graphics on the rounded and bulbous vases that I’ve made – it’s the perfect marriage of amorphous to well-formed, flat to round, and the expected to the unexpected.  Additionally, I find that throwing large bowls is a spiritual and meditative adventure; I quickly get lost in the smooth butter-like, wet clay and the perfect roundness of rotation. The transformation of clay into shape, color, and beauty is my personal journey to the same end. In my pottery, then, I share my experience and my soul with you.