As far back as I can remember, I have had a need to create with my hands. Working in three dimensions brings me my greatest joy. I love taking clay, a primal material from the earth, and transforming it into art. I experiment endlessly with various types of clay bodies.
The Southern California Mountains where I live have greatly influenced my pieces. Jagged peaks, creek beds, streams and ragged footpaths all find their way into my work. Much of my art is unglazed, an expression of my love for the texture and the appearance of raw clay. A native Californian, I am currently artist-in-residence at Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo. I have a home studio at the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains in Newbury Park.
I have always studied art, but it was not until I enrolled in a community college ceramics class as a young woman that I fell in love with pottery and sculpture. In the years that followed, I moved on. I attended art school, married, worked and began a family. Then, in 1993, I returned home to the art that fulfills my drive to create.