The Border Artists
When I was first learning to be a potter, I was influenced by the easy-going freethinking style of Don Reitz, as well as by the elegant earthy forms of Shoji Hamada.
I have learned since then that in common with all artists and imaginers, the particular joy of our lives is that we pay attention, letting all the visual, political, storytelling information roll around in our brains for hours or years and then working it back out through our hands.
As a studio potter for 30 years, I have vessels and artwork scattered from New Mexico to the Ukraine to Japan to Guinea Bissau. I have been working primarily in porcelain for the last decade because its dazzling whiteness lets colors come through bright and true.