FINE PRINT

Ceramics has been a passion of mine ever since I was a young girl. My grandmother was an artist who introduced me to sculpting, clay, and painting as early as I can remember. From then on, I quickly fell in love with clay and ran away with it. I grew up in Pennsylvania, and after high school I moved out to the coastal town of Arcata, California where I attended school at Humboldt State University. I majored in Botany and minored in Ceramics. The ties of nature and clay solidified with me during my time there, and I fell in love with wood firing and soda firing. I spent a lot of time in the redwood forest there and continue to do so in my new home in the PNW and I love to have my work reflect the colors of nature... I now live in Portland, Oregon where I make and fire my work. I am involved in many different wood kilns in the area and love to help lead firings. The wood firings are fire by hand, and usually take 4-7 days of non-stop wood stoking of the fire. The fire in the front of..