I grew up on the plains of Nebraska, a stark yet beautiful landscape that provided fertile ground for my imagination. Always interested in art, particularly the three-dimensional variety, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where I earned my bachelor’s degree in art with honors.
It was in college that I first discovered the power of clay. Starting with a kick wheel and a small ball of clay, I became obsessed with the hypnotic spinning process of throwing. Functional forms emerged from the mud, and I was thrilled.
After college, I began my sojourn west. My first stop was Vail, Colorado, where I worked as a ceramics instructor at Colorado Mountain College. But the West Coast beckoned. Eventually, I ended up in California, where I returned to college, earning my master’s degree from California State University at Northridge.
In 1993, I moved to the Pacific Northwest, where I continue to work with figurative sculpture and my new passion, painting!
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