a r t i s t   s t a t e m e n t

2025

  I’ve been hand building with clay artworks for 35 years and in that time creating a joy filled relationship with clay which has evolved and grown.  I’m creating and  expressing my relationship of respect for this sacred world, for the Earth and the clay that literally supports me  and for the be-ings here; animals, birds, owls, horses, trees, flowers, plants and two legged humans, all manifestations of the sacred dream of love and power;  all medicine for my soul. That energy is imprinted into these artworks. I invite viewers to open to that energy in the artwork and to see mirrored back to them hat same energy in themselves.

Consciously and with growing awareness, I work and live within this energetic ocean of Creation. My artworks are one way that I honor this relationship with the energy of Creation in this world.

The natural world is filled with wonders, curiosities, teachers, and such amazing beauty. What is that all about? I’ve wondered from early on in this lifetime what is is that I am drawn to? The more pristine, the more beautiful and powerful Nature appears to me the more my wondering opens up. The Natural world is revealing and communicating something.

        My working relationship with clay is a way of exploring, honoring and expressing my relationship with Sacredness of this world and the Mystery of Creation. Working with clay, fire and dreams, my artwork is a practice of perceiving the sacred in the moment, in myself, in the clay, Mother Earth, and honoring and building that relationship by bringing sacred dreams from the Mystery into my clay creations.

With clay, the dreams in my heart become form. I work with clay, co-creating with this sacred One, watching the piece come into being. This process feels magical; I leave the marks and “imperfections” of this exciting process visible in the texture, colors and the surface of the artwork. I layer into the surface colorful under glazes and/or slip. The piece is fired twice, sometimes more. Under glazes while permanent have a soft matte surface which allows the texture of the clay and the forming process to remain visible.

I’m grateful to be working with clay in this way.