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Artist Statement
My love of clay comes from the added
challenge of the third dimension. Not only are line, texture
and color considered. Shadows, space & physical presence of
form play rolls as well. My work can be wheel thrown, altered,
handbuilt or a combination of all three, with a variety
of surface treatments. I am fascinated by textures, so I
mark, scrape, stamp, apply and take away clay from my surfaces.
I draw my ideas from a multitude of
sources that include the study of Pre-Columbian and Egyptian
vessels to the patterns of snow drifts and the granite walls of
New Hampshire.
Selected Exhibits
North
Country Studio Workshop Exhibit, McGowan Fine Art, 2008.
Gallery
205, League of NH Craftsmen:
“All
Creatures Great and Small”, 2008,
“Celebration”, 2007 ,“Virgin Vessels”,
2005.
League
of NH Craftsmen 25th Biennial Members Juried Exhibition, 2007.
6th
Annual National Juried Cup Show, Kent, Ohio, 2006.
Annual
League of NH Craftsmen Fair, Sunapee, NH, 2005- present.
NHIA
Ceramics National Biennial Exhibition, 2004.
NH
Potter’s Guild, Biennial Show, 2001, Recipient of Emerging Artist Award, 2003, 2005, 2007,
2009.
Education/Experience
BFA,
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.
Art/Ceramics Instructor, Cuyahoga
Falls Schools, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Independent ceramics study, Laconia
Pottery, Laconia, NH.
Ceramics Instructor, Laconia
Pottery, Laconia, NH.
Ceramics Intensive w/ Anita
Griffith, Horizons Craft Program, MA.
Various Workshops, NH Potters
Guild.
Ceramics Intensive:
Intermediate/Advanced Wheel Throwing, Horizons Craft
program, MA.
Native American Clay, Techniques
and Firing w/Anita Griffith and local potters,
Horizons To Go, Bluff, Utah.
Advanced Throwing Techniques, John
Baymore, NHIA.
North Country Studio Workshop with
Suze Lindsey.
Ceramics Instructor, LRCC.
