I am a ceramic artist living and working in the Sunset Hill neighborhood of Seattle. I got my start with clay at Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin and then started to pursue it again at Lily and the People which was a delightful clay studio in my neighborhood that is sadly now gone.

I eventually was able to create a small home studio and it has grown over the years so that I finally have a working studio with room enough to move around comfortably! No more pottery wheel on a plastic tarp in the living room.

Where to find my work in the Pacific Northwest:

Niche in Ballard

Molly’s Bottle shop

Orcas Island Pottery

Salty at Heart Apothocary

Museum of Northwest Art Gift shop

Plant Baby Pop Ups

My main focus is on the delightful textural surfaces I can find in clay. Most humans find such pleasure in pressing objects into clay, our fingers, a stick, a shell, whatever might make a mark. That fascination has been fueling my creative fire for over 25 years and I expect it will be my muse until my body no longer cooperates!

I started out mainly as a wheel thrower but the call to the textured surface has meant a shift to hand building so that I can incorporate textures made while the clay is still flat.