ABOUT

Artist Statement

I make brightly colored pots with a lightness of form, friendly and inviting – objects that bring a playful energy to any domestic setting. My material of choice is porcelain. It’s a sensitive material and a joy to use.

I strive to create work that invites curiosity and contemplation through unexpected decorative connections that are revealed when the pots are being touched, turned, used.

My work is made for domestic spaces because I believe that art can be experienced through interaction with daily objects. My goal is for this experience to bring happiness, positivity, and respite.

I seek a balance between a minimal elegance in form and a liveliness of line in my illustrated surfaces. I use multiple decorative techniques but am most compelled by the process of inlaying color to create my floral designs. I’m inspired by turn-of-the-20th century design and observation of the natural world and my Ideas reflect themes of both the fragility and persistence of nature through notions of personal nostalgia.

Process

I work on a potter's wheel with porcelain clay. Delicate thin lines are applied using a slip inlay technique at the greenware stage and both underglaze and glaze decoration is added at the bisque stage. I create two bodies of work, one fired in an electric kiln in an oxidation atmosphere to cone 6 and another fired to cone 10 in a reduction gas kiln.