Clay, wax and steel are materials with which I have made art, creating in two and three dimensions. Through ceramics, I offer forms for daily ritual or lively gathering. These functional pottery pieces sync art with life in their crafted space, lines and surface. Additionally in clay, I build sculpture, physically founded in spherical form, that plays with further detail in curvaceous silhouettes and swooping negative space. As a contemporary landscape painter, I pull themes from observations in nature and street life while walking, layering wax, oil and transferred imagery to share with the viewer a familiar yet interpreted picture plane.
My largest creative work is the founding, and continual foster, of a professional art community in the neck of North Charleston, Studio Union. I have teamed to design and renovate a building that hosts artists working in ceramics, painting, sculpture and photography.
In all media, my work aims for human connection in an original and genuine way.
