Creating handmade pottery and preparing a meal are concerned with many of the same principles and practices: using good ingredients, mixing, cutting, measuring, heating and tweaking the recipe throughout the process to get the desired result - the perfect dish!

I create functional pieces for the kitchen, table and home that are both wheel-thrown and hand built from stoneware and terra cotta clays. Then, using drawing and painting techniques developed over decades of experimenting, observing and fine tuning, pieces are finished by hand with colors, patterns and designs inspired by our natural landscape.  Every piece is unique by nature as I allow the slight variations in glazes, individual firings, and the clay itself to lend an irreproducible quality reserved solely for that which is handmade.