About my art
The stoneware clay is wheel-thrown and altered or sometimes just hand-built, then fired in a gas kiln in a reduction atmosphere to achieve the natural copper reds and greens, and cobalt blue that you see. All of these colors are derived from a variety of minerals that I mix to form my custom glazes.
Twenty-five years ago while living in my hometown of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, I signed up for a pottery class at the local community college. I had enjoyed using handmade pots and wanted to try making them myself. After a few years of practice I learned to “throw bowls on the wheel” and then to assemble wheel thrown and hand made parts, to sculpt and alter the forms. Then friends started asking if I would sell my artworks, and "Voila!"
and my studio
is in Sunset Hills at 308 Kensington Road in Greensboro. I am here most days but am happy to meet you at your convenience.
This is what I see after the first firing. Clay artworks have been completely air dried and then fired to become "bisque ware" where a pot is firm but still porous enough to receive glaze for the second firing.
After that second or glaze firing the artworks are ready for you.
In the studio's back yard beside the kiln is my sunny showroom.