I am an artist practicing to be a potter.
Pottery entered my life in undergrad. I enjoyed it, but according to one of my classmates, I didn’t love it. Fast forward 30 years to my teaching career. My school was talking about fulfilling my request for a kiln, and I took a ceramics class. That decision changed everything for me.
Teaching high school art for 29 years has revealed my love for color and texture. Whether I’m painting or glazing, there is great richness in the harmony of colors. How the glazes react when overlapping others reminds me of how we are changed as we interact with those around us. Beauty comes in the blending together of our experiences.
And so is my work. Each piece is created as an individual piece. Although I’d love to say I can exactly replicate each glaze combo or vessel shape, I know that each will be unique. How the heat changes the glazes and cooling changes the colors. Just as unique as each fingerprint that humans possess.
So as you enjoy my work and hold each piece in your hand, seek to enjoy it as it is, with all its imperfections and marks, harmony of color and form. A work from the Potter’s hand, you are unique, so is each piece of my work.
