I make pottery decorated with plants and flowers that are connected to important memories and places in my life. I work out of my garage studio in Austin, TX. Right now I am most interested in exploring repeating patterns and using actual textures to create one-of-a-kind decorative pieces. I find inspiration in lots of historical pots, plant motifs, patterns, the work of many contemporary potters, and the nature around me. A few things I am looking at a lot recently are cornflowers, shrimp plants, 18th century Sevres porcelain, Messian snowball vases, Classical and Late Classical Greek pottery forms, lace tatting, Bernard Palissy’s grotto plans, and the collection of pots from my grandmothers house.
Most of my work starts on the wheel, where I throw and then sometimes alter the base pot. I am currently exploring coil building as a way to make new, larger shapes! Then I form and attach each 3D plant piece. My decoration usually starts out as drawings of plants that I then make into sculptural clay versions repeated over and over again on the surface of the pot. All my work is fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln.
