About the Artist

I always remember wanting to be an artist when I grew up. There were many people that encouraged me. When I was 12, my mother sent me to The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. on Saturday mornings for painting classes. She was an artist that always regretted not developing her own creativity. When I would visit my art-teacher cousin in New York we would always talk about art. This same cousin gave me my first canvas and a set of oil paints. And so was born my first painting of the New York City skyline.

Through the years I expanded my interest in drawing and oil painting to include sculpture, jewelry, weaving, glass-blowing, book-binding and watercolor painting. As a young mother, while my children were in classes all day, I went back to school becoming fascinated with Sculpture, Ceramics, and Art History. I had a wonderful teacher, Howell Pinkston, who inspired me further. He suggested that I become a docent at The Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, now The Norton Simon Museum. I took his advice and studied there for a year, became a docent, and continued to read every book at hand about Art History.

Years later I moved to Baltimore Maryland and was very fortunate to become a member of Baltimore Clayworks, a non-profit studio coop, which still operates today. It was a wonderful opportunity to work with professional ceramic artists and learn the practical aspects of using professional photographers in applications to the American Craft Council Shows. I was accepted on my very first application. The opening day of the show I wrote enough orders to keep me busy for years. 

Now I needed more space, so I opened my own studio. Since then, I have been making distinctive ceramics pieces for over 40 years. I have shown in galleries all over the United States, as well as in England and Ireland. During that time, my entire income was derived from my artwork.

Several years ago I was invited to design for a famous Italian ceramic factory dating from the 16th century. I returned often, working for a month each time. Living on a farm close to the ceramic town of Deruta, I would walk through the fields to the factory – surely the way it was done back then. 

Sculpture had always intrigued me. In 2006 I went to the University of Davis and attended the annual ceramic sculpture exhibit. I was captivated. It took a year to fertilize my creative process, but I’ll never forget the day I walked into the studio and said to myself: ”No more pots. From now on I’m going to make people”. So it was back to class and studies with Tip Toland, Philippe Faraut, Christina West, Dirk Staschke, Debra Fritts, and Christine Córdova. All of these masters specialize in the human face and figure working with water based clays. Now, using ceramics and bronze as my medium, I sculpt faces and figures from my imagination.