My stoneware pottery features hand-glazed designs inspired by the Anasazi People - "The Ancient Ones".
My love for Native American design led me to the Southwest, where I discovered "THE PEOPLE OF THE ROCK" during a float trip down the Colorado River, through a workshop in Cortez, CO and a college course which took me on a trip to visit the sites built by the Anasazi.
I was awe-struck when I learned that amid the harshest of surroundings and with the most primitive tools, the ANASAZI created pottery with designs of such beauty that they are admired by peoples of all ages, even to the present day.
Because I am most fascinated by the designs created during the height of their civilization, I have chosen to work with Anasazi designs created during the MESA VERDE period, which occured from around 1066 A.D. to the time of their mysterious disappearance around 1300 A.D.
As a former teacher and life-long learner, my motivation for this work is to continue to teach. I want others to learn about the ANASAZI, their lives, and their beautiful pottery. When you purchase a piece of my work, you will become bonded, as have I, to the people of the past. It touches your soul in a way that can't be explained.
My choice of clay and glaze, which makes the work functionally safe, is more importantly, symbolic in its use of color and texture and application of design. To exactly copy the clay and glaze, would unwantedly, eliminate my part as artist and innovator. When I sit at my wheel, however, I'm always reminded of my sister Anasazi potters when I sit silently and repeat the "Potter's Prayer" written by my "first teacher", Clint Swink::
As you tour my site, enjoy the beauty of Anasazi design and learn about these ancient potters, whose culture would reach out to affect the lives of almost every other prehistoric Indian civilization of the Southwest.