About

It could be a long story, but the short version is that my pottery career has been a pretty circuitous route.

I started working with clay as an undergraduate in the early 70’s. I studied for a short time at Tuscarora Pottery School, Tuscarora , Nevada. For a few years, I did some art fairs and was happy to sell those early pieces. Back then I started teaching pottery and photography in a private school and became fascinated with the movement at the time in alternative education. I did less and less pottery and became more and more involved in changing schooling.

After what seems now like too many years in education and schooling, I’m happy to back where I started – sitting at a pottery wheel and making functional – and sometimes ‘other’ functional pieces. Lately, I’m the Studio Potter at the Thousand Islands Arts Center, Clayton, New York. I taught pottery there in the early 80’s when it was the Thousand Islands Crafts School.

My home is in Alexandria Bay, New York though for the past two years I’ve taken off during the winter for New Hampshire and Boston. I don’t do this to escape the winter weather, but the winter isolation! I spend time with my daughter and son, and enjoy the opportunity to visit museums and galleries, as well as other pottery studios. My work is available at Fibonacci Art Gallery, Watertown, New York.

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