I have spent more than 40 years working in clay — teaching it, learning from it, and being humbled by it.

 

My current series is inspired by the Aspen trees of the Colorado high country. There is something in the way they grow — stretched from the inside out, marked by the seasons, connected to each other beneath the surface — that speaks to me deeply. Each piece in this series begins as a porcelain vessel, thrown on the wheel and then stretched from within. Cracks emerge naturally as the clay responds to pressure. The deep black glaze settles into those cracks, making each line visible, permanent, and beautiful.

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My work is represented in several Colorado galleries and is held in private collections around the world. Every piece is made by hand in my Grand Junction studio, and no two are ever exactly alike — because no two Aspens are, either.

I make what I make because I believe handmade objects change the quality of a life. Quietly. The way an Aspen grove changes the quality of a hillside.

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“True growth happens from the inside out.”