HOME Welcome to Living Earth Studio,
I consider myself a storyteller inspired by three great muses; nature, spirituality and a love of the practical.
Drawing from the greatest creative expression, the natural world, I create pieces of art that are functional; designed to be touched and interacted with on a daily basis. My goal is to build environments that encourage collectors to physically and spiritually connect, not only with my work, but to themselves. Within my sculpture, I try to communicate a place that can touch our spirits in our every day lives, be it a bench for quiet reflection, a lantern to provide a light source of comfort or an abstract sculptural tower to fuel imagination and wonder....
Indoor and outdoor Ceramic Sculpture. Commissions welcomed.
BIO Artist Statement:
I consider myself a storyteller inspired by three great muses; nature, spirituality and a love of the practical.
Drawing from the greatest creative expression, the natural world, I create pieces of art that are functional; designed to be touched and interacted with on a daily basis. My goal is to build environments that encourage collectors to physically and spiritually connect, not only with my work, but to themselves. Within my sculpture, I try to communicate a place that can touch our spirits in our every day lives, be it a bench for quiet reflection, a lantern to provide a light source of comfort or an abstract sculptural tower to fuel imagination and wonder.
It's important to me that my work looks and feels like someone has physically touched it, created it, loved it. I never try for "perfection", I don't believe in it. I only strive to satisfy the images I have in my mind's eye, yet am ever open to the growth and transformation of the piece as it comes to life in our three dimensional world. I believe it's vital that a sculpture evolve during the process of creation in realizing its final form. This is part of nature and of life.
I am, foremost, an artist in love with the process of ceramic sculpture. In using clay, I feel that I am borrowing the life of the Earth, for clay lives: eating, breathing, and drinking --- and yet once fired becomes frozen in time, immortal. When clay is in my hands, forms rise, textures flow, inspiring me to share my relationship with it. I use clay to speak about all that we are, have been and can be. Clay is the dirt beneath our feet, the dust we breathe and part of us all.
When you see my artwork in person, I ask only one thing Please touch it.
Exhibition EXHIBITIONS:
"Illusions of Reality"
Nov 4 - 14, 2011
Sedona Visual Artist Coalition
Sedona, Az
"2010 Faculty Art Exhibition"
August 27 - Sept 30, 2010
Clarkdale, Az
