Description
These days, I contemplate the relevance of living as a practicing artist with our planet facing extraordinary shifts. I imagine how the work of my hands and heart may be of benefit. Perhaps, working as a potter develops beneficial qualities: caring attention, commitment, honesty, courage, passion, hard work, love of beauty, and a willingness to get one’s hands dirty. Engaging daily in the primordial, mysterious act of creation with earth, water, fire, air, the essential raw materials of which we and the pots are made, links us with all earthly life. Simple pottery, like cups, are made to hold and serve nourishment. Do consciously made pots carry some ineffable ability to transform and heal? What may be embedded in the stone of fired clay by the alchemical bond between material, process, and person. What is conveyed through use or enjoyment? I’m intending a reality where compassion arises in the heart when hand embraces handle.
Exhibitions
Collections:
Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.
Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT.
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
Manchester Craftsmen Guild, Pittsburgh, PA
Ontario Clay and Glass Association, Ontario, CA.
Corsaw Collection of American Ceramics, Alfred, NY.
San Juan College, Farmington, NM.
Morean Arts Center for Clay, St. Petersburg, FL.
piece on loan to Senator Kay Hagan’s DC office.
Recent Sampling of Exhibitions:
“LIneage: The Art of Mentorship” Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY.
“Handcrafted 2014”, juried, Rocky Mount, NC.
“Southern Hospitality”, Baltimore Clayworks, MD.
“Appalachian Regional Commission”, Washington DC.
“Cup, the Intimate Object X”, Charlie Cummings Gallery, FL.
“Potters of the Roan”, Signature Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
“Teatime”, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY.
“The Art of Dining”, Worcester Center for Craft, MA.
“National Teapot Show IX”, Creedmoor, NC.
“Cups”, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA.
“Making It”, Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC.
