Over the years, I have worked with porcelain clay, oxides, glazes, sakuragami and other papers, shards of porcelain, lace, plant materials, photographs and canvas.  I am interested in using a mixed media approach, choosing diverse objects and materials and taking chances in their combination and resulting imagery.  Using an experiential approach, I work with the idea that, as I make choices and add or subtract different materials, at times having multiple layers, it creates an immediate and at times emotional response by the viewer.  I also stay open to the unexpected and strive to have the confidence to incorporate and resolve whatever evolves.

I was introduced to minimal flat Japanese aesthetics through travels to Japan and attending classes at Boise State University taught by ceramics professor John Takehara.  Helen Frankenthaler and the abstract expressionist movement of the 1940’s and 50’s in New York influenced me in terms of embracing freedom, spontaneity and personal expression while making art.  My work involves the spontaneous and subconscious and the bringing together of disparate materials from the natural world.  It is a process that in its coming together has the goal of creating a work with a new sense of space, energy and force.