When I accidentally entered a clay studio instead of a life drawing class many years ago, I discovered my passion for clay and I have never looked back. I became hooked on clay and on the way it felt, smelled, and looked. Clay for me is inspiring and surprising. The restrictions imposed by each stage in the sequence that forming, glazing, and firing clay demands might seem to restrict the possibility for creativity, but I find the opposite. In reduction firing no two firings are alike. And though casualties in the kiln do occur, there are also gifts that make it feel like unwrapping birthday presents. This is such an ancient medium that sometimes it is almost impossible to discern a twenty first century piece from one made hundreds of years ago.

Clay allows me to release new forms, new shapes, and to incorporate my love of drawing and painting; it also gives me freedom to improvise and to be absurd.

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