My love of sculpting can be traced back in my memory to playing with playdough as a child and making realistic recreations of objects such as a miniature blueberry pie with individual tiny blue playdough spheres and a yellow woven lattice top. My favorite recollections of elementary art class projects are when we were able to work with clay. Yes, I do still have those elementary clay sculptures.

My love for design as a visual art form was not formally shaped until I reached college where I entered to major in Interior Design at Meredith College. After taking many art courses as prerequisites to the design courses for my major, I re-discovered my love for building three dimensional forms. I found that I was most comfortable with clay, perhaps because of its forgiving nature of being a material that can be worked as additive and subtractive methods of sculpting.

I have worked along side other ceramic artists who served as mentors by allowing me to explore atmospheric and alternative ceramic firing processes. After realizing that I like to see the evidence of the firing process as part of the surface design of the pieces that I create, I began focusing on primarily on finishing my work by raku firing and wood firing. I am always exploring, and my body of work displays my exploration in the various construction techniques, glazing choices, and firing techniques that I choose to combine in each piece.