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Artist Statement
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This body of work is the result of years of interest in ancient cultures and years
of working with clay in the studio. Initially a
wheel-throwing functional potter, I have over the last 10 years worked more with the process of hand-building
the clay pieces.
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Fourth grade geography and art history have led to my traveling to experience the
art and design of many ancient cultures. This
includes Georgia’s Etowah Indian Mounds and attending a workshop in the USA southwest with Lucy
Lewis and her daughters
as well as traveling to other countries of the world…Peru, Crete, Greece, China, and Ethiopia.
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Clay is draped over different shaped forms to create the initial forms of the vessels.
Stamps that I make and wooden carved
stamps made for adding designs to textiles, are two of the ways that texture is added to the clay work.
Most of these pieces
have been fired in an electric kiln several times to the reach the final color and form.
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The images in the clay speak to a nonverbal manner of comprehending the world.
The images may be translated into works
through story or song, but they are understood in the deep recesses of the psyche where words are often
ineffectual.
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I find great pleasure in working with clay, putting my stamp on it and receiving from
the clay a message of its potential to be
formed into objects and the limits the same clay presents.
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Education
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Agnes Scott College, BA in Chemistry and Art
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Vermont College: MA in Art Therapy
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West Georgia College: MA in Psychology
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Exhibitions
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