In a world where production of domestic goods and by-product waste has reached a grand scale, my hope is to elevate the importance of handmade pottery by its quality and its relevance today. I believe the life and the space in which these uniquely crafted pots inhabit, enhance our daily rituals. The potter is situated among the vast availability of the industrially made, what separates the hand made from the mass produced? I define it in the observation and complexity of our human qualities in our physical world; one of longevity, comfort, pleasure, ease, and beauty. It is an answer to the industrially made products that flood our markets today and to bring the artists’ individual creativity into your home. The handmade, unlike any other art is an aesthetic experience through the senses and is a direct connection to the maker. It is voiced in the subtle nuances and individual markings only read through the intimacy between user and the object.

 I have collaborated with our material culture and with the botanic world. This is the collision of worlds where information is sourced for designing and embellishing my pots. Products and technology, with a variety of graphic letter type and line design, vivid color palettes, bold geometry in architecture, and an array of tropical botanicals, adornment on my pots. The graphic scheme of my decorations are a visual reaction and inspiration of my surroundings. Whereas my forms are an observation of how the aesthetics are integrated with structure and its visual impact in relation to use. The action one takes when holding a cup, whether grasping around the body or holding from the handle, as leverage; the jars top, should it have a knob to access its contents, and the many possibilities of use for a bowl, all this information gets assimilated and informs my work.

My intentions about the pots function, its need in human interaction, the importance of the object, the process of the hand-work and all formal information, is a desire to find meaning in our material culture through the ancient traditions of the handmade.