Biography
“My best days are when I start in the dark and come back to the planet because my wife is rousting me when she gets home from work and the sun is down and I am covered with clay dust….
"Is it a connection with my early life growing up in mining camps, 10 years living on a submarine, and my years of being a psychotherapist encouraging my clients to find a way to express themselves that developed my tunnel vision that fully immerses me in the projects that I undertake? Or is it just me, the artist, finally being awakened by an exceptional teacher, emerging and taking priority over everything else?
"I find the inspiration for my ceramics in nature, the micro and macro. As is represented in my work, it is the fine definition of time and space that get me, the connections, the Golden Ratio, the geometry and symmetry of it all….
"Fellow artists have called my work mathematical. I call it connecting. My repeating patterns are interconnected, just as we humans are in life connected to nature. One of my favorite patterns as well as the most frustrating to replicate, taking as many as 70 hours of carving to complete, is a flower pattern. Each “flower” shares a petal to be complete. If each flower around one flower takes a petal for itself to be complete then the center flower should not exist. If we could see each surrounding flower as complete and six sided then the center image would not be there except… it is. Each flower actually needs to take from all its neighbors to be complete, so none of them should exist. But the truth in these patterns is that none of the flowers exist without their surrounding neighbors.
"I have never been as happy or focused in my life as I am now when throwing, sketching and carving pieces of clay. Seeing the final results of my creations being shared and enjoyed by others is forming my own Golden Ratio…."
