 Upon graduation from Florida State University with a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting I discovered a passion for a new medium (for me) clay and realized that I had nothing to say with paint and canvas. Lacking the experience with traditional clay-building methods… I pioneered a new method of working with different types of stoneware and colored clays which resulted in a signature style; unique and easily recognized. |
| Later periods included whimsical architectural pieces and thin-walled and delicate Raku vessels that expressed the personal and emphatic influences of earth, land and sea. Later work expressed a transition back to a variety of stoneware/colored clays and the vessel/architectural form. |
| As a dedicated clay artist and long-time resident; discovering fossils along Florida’s timeless shores peaked my interest in Florida’s geology and paleo-oceanography; especially once I learned about the transgressions and regressions of the seas that formed the state and resulted in the abundant fossil deposits. |
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A gift of Dugong bones (extinct in Florida for 1m years) was the catalyst for the inclusion of fossils taking the work to a new level of "sculpture"; resulting in a more intimate, cerebral expression that added "animal" to earth, land and sea.
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