Functional potters love to hear, “I always reach for your mug for my morning cup of coffee.”

This pot or that pot; the choice initiates the ritual of a first cup of wake-up coffee. These acts of choosing guide us to pay attention to small details in our day, expanding the experience and welcoming the potter to participate. Pots set a process of community in motion, and community can be as intimately local as you, the pot, and the lives you share in your kitchen.

My mugs are used in a local coffee shop/gallery where people can drink finely roasted coffee in them. These pots are working in the world, having a tactile dialogue with people who might or might not be newly introduced to handmade objects. These pots work being held, and holding.

I aim to make handsome, well-balanced, porcelain pots. Thrown and altered shapes like the squared pitchers and large oval platters are all meant to work, to be seen on tables with food in them while sharing my sense of beauty, grace and humor with the users.

Pot-making has provided the golden thread in my life that has survived home moves, day jobs, and raising kids. The exploration of form continues now in a spacious and light-filled studio where even sweeping the floor is a peculiar pleasure.

Part of my community is CLAYBODY, a collective of artisans in Chester County, Pennsylvania, who show work together, and whose mission is to preserve the vitality of the hand/heart/mind connection between the makers and users of hand-crafted objects.

personal history

Potter, Milkhouse Studio, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. 1997 to present
Founding member of CLAYBODY, a group of local clay artists. 2007 to present
Teacher, Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. present
Teacher, Ceramics and 3-dimensional art, Seisen International School, Tokyo, Japan. 1992-1996
Resident Artist, Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1985-1989
Ceramics Instructor, State University of New York at Binghamton, New York. 1984-1986
Studio Potter, Denver, Colorado. 1976-1984
Founding member of Show of Hands, a cooperative fine crafts gallery, Denver, Colorado.