Homewood, Pennsylvania
Meet the Maker: “The decoration you see is the construction of the piece.” This is one simple way I use to describe how I make my work. The colors of my work are not painted on; they are each an individual piece of pigmented porcelain that I make, shape, and layer or adhere together, like a puzzle or fabric of sorts. My work occupies a kind of hinge where craft and fine art converge. If selected, I will offer functional porcelain housewares – such as mugs, vases, and bowls – as well as my more design-oriented artworks. While I do focus on the decorative aesthetics of my wares, each piece reflects its handmade nature by my demanding focus on craftsmanship. I use traditional wheel-throwing, slab-building, and slip-casting techniques, sometimes printing on the surfaces with my compositions using my colored slips, sometimes building the vessel from thin slab sections of colored porcelain. I make all of my clays using raw materials mined in the United States. I've developed a range of iconic forms in various finishes and sizes so that virtually every customer can find something to love. In my functional work, I've developed several original aesthetic bodies of work that appeal to various clients, most of them utilizing vivid color palettes I create with pigmented porcelains (rather than glazes) that give each piece a distinct visual and tactile appeal, including a line of place-based ""landscape"" designs that I compose from sketches of wilderness locations that are meaningful to me, places where I have hiked or mountain biked, or lived near. My artwork often deals with ethical questions regarding how I navigate issues of belonging and marginalization, and concepts of place, necessity, and luxury. Each composition is derived from my sketches of interior/exterior spaces, and are figurative/abstract balancing acts concerning form, space, and light. My forms merge classical shapes with references to the body and tools. My compositions embrace collage to evoke the optimism of discovery.
Homewood, Pennsylvania
Meet the Maker: “The decoration you see is the construction of the piece.” This is one simple way I use to describe how I make my work. The colors of my work are not painted on; they are each an individual piece of pigmented porcelain that I make, shape, and layer or adhere together, like a puzzle or fabric of sorts. My work occupies a kind of hinge where craft and fine art converge. If selected, I will offer functional porcelain housewares – such as mugs, vases, and bowls – as well as my more design-oriented artworks. While I do focus on the decorative aesthetics of my wares, each piece reflects its handmade nature by my demanding focus on craftsmanship. I use traditional wheel-throwing, slab-building, and slip-casting techniques, sometimes printing on the surfaces with my compositions using my colored slips, sometimes building the vessel from thin slab sections of colored porcelain. I make all of my clays using raw materials mined in the United States. I've developed a range of iconic forms in various finishes and sizes so that virtually every customer can find something to love. In my functional work, I've developed several original aesthetic bodies of work that appeal to various clients, most of them utilizing vivid color palettes I create with pigmented porcelains (rather than glazes) that give each piece a distinct visual and tactile appeal, including a line of place-based ""landscape"" designs that I compose from sketches of wilderness locations that are meaningful to me, places where I have hiked or mountain biked, or lived near. My artwork often deals with ethical questions regarding how I navigate issues of belonging and marginalization, and concepts of place, necessity, and luxury. Each composition is derived from my sketches of interior/exterior spaces, and are figurative/abstract balancing acts concerning form, space, and light. My forms merge classical shapes with references to the body and tools. My compositions embrace collage to evoke the optimism of discovery.
