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About
About Me
Background:
I grew up in Tennessee and Ohio in a family of farmers and artists. I thought I would be a painter, then found clay as a college student. Clay work has been a constant thread throughout my life, intertwined with careers in teaching art, managing Army Arts and Crafts programs, and managing museum safety programs.
The sensuous, tactile aspects of clay appeal to me, and I’m interested in shapes and forms that go beyond conventional pot shapes. I am especially fond of full, fat forms that resemble living, growing things, with exaggerated and abstracted features or appendages. My interests and influences vary among organic shapes, animal behavior, incongruities, comics and stories; the resulting work sometimes takes the form of whimsical creatures, botanical shapes and surfaces, and altered vessels.
I presently maintain a studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia and exhibit my work locally and regionally.
Past Exhibits:
“Wheels” - Gallery North on the Square, Bloomington, IN, 2007
“Vroom, Vroom-More Than Meets the Ear” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2007
Seventeenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, 2008
Clay3 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition”, Warrenville, IL, 2008, 2014
“All This I Am” – Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA, 2010
“Putting On the Dog” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2010
ACGA Clay and Glass National Juried Exhibition, Brea, CA, 2011
“Pawfection” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2014
“Shift: The Art of the Bicycle” – Studio 550 Art Center and Gallery, Manchester, NH, 2014
“The Fun Room” (solo exhibition) – The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen (VA), 2015
“Menagerie” – Baltimore Clayworks, 2016
I grew up in Tennessee and Ohio in a family of farmers and artists. I thought I would be a painter, then found clay as a college student. Clay work has been a constant thread throughout my life, intertwined with careers in teaching art, managing Army Arts and Crafts programs, and managing museum safety programs.
The sensuous, tactile aspects of clay appeal to me, and I’m interested in shapes and forms that go beyond conventional pot shapes. I am especially fond of full, fat forms that resemble living, growing things, with exaggerated and abstracted features or appendages. My interests and influences vary among organic shapes, animal behavior, incongruities, comics and stories; the resulting work sometimes takes the form of whimsical creatures, botanical shapes and surfaces, and altered vessels.
I presently maintain a studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia and exhibit my work locally and regionally.
Past Exhibits:
“Wheels” - Gallery North on the Square, Bloomington, IN, 2007
“Vroom, Vroom-More Than Meets the Ear” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2007
Seventeenth San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, 2008
Clay3 National Juried Ceramics Exhibition”, Warrenville, IL, 2008, 2014
“All This I Am” – Jacksonville Center for the Arts, Floyd, VA, 2010
“Putting On the Dog” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2010
ACGA Clay and Glass National Juried Exhibition, Brea, CA, 2011
“Pawfection” – The Ice House Gallery, Berkeley Springs, WV, 2014
“Shift: The Art of the Bicycle” – Studio 550 Art Center and Gallery, Manchester, NH, 2014
“The Fun Room” (solo exhibition) – The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen (VA), 2015
“Menagerie” – Baltimore Clayworks, 2016
