As a child visiting the state fair in Sacramento, CA, I would stand hypnotized watching potters throwing in an artist display area. Even as my family would start walking on, I would stay marveling at the sight of the clay being transformed from a shapeless lump into a graceful piece of art. That sense of wonderment still has me a captive audience all these years later. Even as a new piece is being removed from the wheel, I sometimes cannot stop looking at it in wonder… how did this come from my hands? From where inside of me did this come? I thank God for this gift of expressing something deep inside in a tangible way. In 2004 I started working with crystalline glazes. I was told these glazes were too unpredictable and much of my work, even after many years, would not be successful. But the first time I opened the kiln and saw one or two pieces with crude crystals on them, I was hooked. The randomness of pattern and the varying shapes of the crystals seemed to be perfect for the graceful shapes I’d come to throw. The idea of actually growing an organic zinc-silicate crystal, and freezing it forever in a cooled glaze, was exactly the interaction between shape and glaze that I’d been searching for. And the way the sunlight plays in the prisms of these spontaneously formed crystals is enchanting. I hope you enjoy the pieces I’m sharing with you on this website, and hopefully some of the wonder of crystals engages you, as it has me. I also hope you see something you would like to add to your collection. Unless specified 'sold' most of the pieces on my website are for sale.