a r t i s t
s t a t e m e n t 2024
I love working with clay and have been for 34 years. What have I discovered
over time in my joy filled relationship with clay and making hand built artworks?
For one thing, there is much more going on than just creating clay objects and a
career as an artist. I’m creating expressions of my relationship with this sacred
world and the Earth that supports me and the be-ings here; animals, birds, owls,
horses, trees, flowers, plants and two legged humans, all manifestations of the
sacred dream of love and power; all medicine for my soul. That energy is
imprinted into these artworks. Viewers may sense that energy in the artwork and
recognize that same energy in themselves and want to know more.
Consciously and with growing awareness, I work and live within this
energetic ocean of Creation. My artworks are one way that I honor this
relationship and facination with the energy of Creation in this world.
The natural world is filled with wonders, curiosities, teachers, and such
amazing beauty. What is that all about? I’ve wondered from early on in this
lifetime. What is is that i have been drawn to in the natural world, the more
pristine, the more beautiful and powerful Nature appears to me. The Natural
world is revealing and communicating something.
My working relationship with clay is a way of exploring, honoring and
expressing my relationship with Sacredness of this world and the Mystery of
Creation. Working with clay, fire and dreams, my artwork is a practice of
perceiving the sacred in the moment, in myself, in the clay, Mother Earth, and
honoring and building that relationship by bringing sacred dreams from the
Mystery into the literal world.
With clay, the dreams in my heart become form. I work with clay, co-
creating with this sacred One, watching the piece come into being. This process
feels magical; I leave the marks and “imperfections” of this exciting process visible
in the texture and the surface of the artwork. I layer into the surface colorful
under glazes and/or slip. The piece is fired twice, sometimes more. Under glazes
while permanent have a soft matte surface which allows the texture of the clay
and the forming process to remain visible.
I’m grateful to be working with clay in this way.
With humility and gratitude I offer my clay creations to the Dream.
Blue Fire
