I see myself primarily as a ceramic artist and mixed-media sculptor. With clay I work on the potter's wheel as well as hand-build, and find the dichotomy between these two techniques both challenging and invigorating. The tools I use to work in wood often mirror in may ways, both the wheel throwing and hand building with clay.
I often work in series in clay, wood, metal and other materials, making a number of similar pieces. No two, though, are ever exactly alike. This work is often somewhat more detailed, but in very subtle ways. I believe it is here that the "joining" of my interests is most evident. As individual pieces my thrown work, by contrast, is somewhat understated in both form and decoration.
All ceramic work is fired in wood-fueled kilns exclusively. I particularly like the historic aspects and surface quality the work exhibits when fired in a kiln fueled by wood alone. It is here that I give up my ability to exert complete control of the final artistic process and allow the wood-fired kiln to exert its influences on the transformation of the work. Ultimately, the results are an unconscious amalgam of control and freedom from a partnership of artist and kiln.