I love working with soft slabs of clay and making them say something about the shapes I’ve lived with throughout my life. I am attracted to geometric forms and the curves and valleys of living things. Colors speak to me.

While I am working, I want to maintain the feeling of the initial softness of the wet clay in the final form. Contrasting organically curving front surfaces with geometric shapes, I make hollow three-dimensional forms to hang on the wall. The glazed surfaces of stoneware have always reminded me of precious and semiprecious stones. This gem like quality pulls me forward and helps me envision the finished piece while I am forming my work.

Recently my focus is on having visual conversations. I enjoy it when different parts of my work speak to one another. As I get older and more vulnerable, I seem to be yielding to the use of less durable materials like fabric, and enjoying the contrast with the fired clay surface. Always, clay is primary, but I’m learning what clay can say to satin and brocade, and copper and wood.