Our everyday experience can be demanding. The world is a busy place, packed to the gills with input - it's 24/7 if we allow it to be. Days, hours, moments can pass by in a blur, the urgency of everyday life intruding on any opportunity we may have for quiet reflection, making positive memories or experiencing gratitude. I've been incredibly fortunate this past year, and in my life as a whole on so very many fronts, and yet find myself on occasion, as we all inevitably do, fix

Yikes. Shaking things up...not something I'd normally suggest in a porcelain studio...but most artists know better than to fight it. Personally it's something I can't resist, cutting loose is a drive, like food, water or sex...it keeps me alive, fresh, and evolving...plus, it's damn fun. When we first purchased our current home 6 years ago, we were faced with walls. So many big, blank, empty walls begging for adornment. Serendipitously, this was also the year we first discove

"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson a.k.a.: The one that got away. I so loved this piece. An elongated, narrow, shallow vessel, my thought was to detail the surface to just the right level, leaving large areas pristine so as not to deter too much from the elegance of the form itself. There I was, happily working my way from one end of the piece to the other, sculpting, making marks, off in that dreamy la-la land ... flow