I have always tried to capture the force of nature in my work. When you watch a plant grow you can see its intention is perfect. It uses just the right shape, amount of color, and texture to do what it has to do. I try to emulate this “philosophy” in clay, without doing realistic imitations of plants, but drawing upon essences and distilling aspects or parts to create a perfect synthesis of form and color.

My work is very tactile as a consequence; on one level it satisfies the human desire to touch and feel something attractively “natural,” but on a deeper level, it rewards the user by connecting them with a very potent and tightly focused distillation of nature. It is this—the aesthetic connection that adds extra life and energy and meaning to the act of using, or simply contemplating, the piece—that is the goal and purpose of my work.