About the Potter....

For the past 20+ years I have lived with my family in the Mississippi Rivers Hills region of Southeast Missouri.  I spent my  "growing up" years in Louisiana and early adult life in Arizona enjoying the outdoors hiking, camping, and vacationing at my grandparents farms in Kansas.  Now I help my husband farm a small vineyard growing grapes, our own veggies, herbs and flowers. In my spare time  I have mud up to my elbows in the pottery studio. I am inspired by the peaceful view of woods, vineyard and fields that surround my studio.  My pottery training for the last 10 years has been self taught with a few community classes, workshops, reading and many hours on the pottery wheel.  Often bits and pieces of my herbs, flowers and grape leaves find their way as part of  my clay creations or grapevines are attached as handles to create those "one of a kind" pieces of art for everyday living.

My style is simple with an organic flare.  You can see arts and crafts influence in my latest creations. Pieces are both wheel thrown that are made for their simplicity or slightly altered for added character.  I also handbuild with actual leaves as molds for some of my signature pieces.   I  have been know to dig , process and fire local dug clay or nature items dipped in liquid clay in various forms trying to find that "special" effect.

Artist Statement

To borrow from Ansel Adams his words of wisdom:

"Art is both love and friendship and understanding:  the desire to give.
It is not charity, which is giving of things.  It is more than kindness, which is giving of self.  It is both taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.  It is recreation on another plane of realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the interrelations of these."

Enjoy!