The core of my art practice has been working with clay for the past decade, but my longer term creative endeavors encompass sculpture, painting, and installation art. My clay pieces are sculptural as well as illustrative, and they are driven instinctively by the connections that I see occurring as the work is created. I work from the forms arising during hand building and throwing, and alter these forms by disassembling and reassembling them, working with the pieces until the forms resonate with me internally. The addition or subtraction of illustrative layers, subtle textures, the application of handles or addition of artifacts arising from cutting apart my clay vessels gives each object an individual and identifiable sense of space, while reducing the vessel and its surface design to simple, modest, representational forms. 

I have a rescue dog named Bump who has a ton of energy but is very sweet and a good listener and the best velcro friend. She is my first dog so I have learned a lot and I feel we really understand each other which has been an amazing thing to learn her as a sensitive willful sweet creature. I love when she soul gazes into my eyes when sitting next to me in my truck or on my lap. When I am not working, I spend a lot of time walking with Bump in nature and to farms and land near where we live.