My ceramic work is driven by form as well as surface. I also love the fire. I once heard that potters got into clay for love of forms, fire, or chemistry. Of those three, I definitely find an affinity most for the form and fire. Apologies to my dear Dad, the polymer chemist, as chemistry is not my favorite.

I love to feel the clay in its raw state and add and subtract to the basic slab or wheel thrown face/form of the pot. I have used leather in conjunction with my pots, which is a throw back to my days in the 1970’s when I worked at a leather shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands. I mostly throw stoneware clay on an electric potters wheel. I also like to handbuild pots using a rolling pin more often than a slab roller, as well as pinching and coiling to form the shapes. More recently, I have been obsessed with surface decorations. I am using various textures, underglazes, stamps and slips to create painterly like decoration on the surfaces of my pots. I continue to crave color in contrast to the raw fired clay. All my work is high fired in a reduction gas kiln to a soft cone 10.