I've always been fascinated by the hidden patterns, structures, and relationships that shape the world around us. From an early age, I learned to look closely. Time spent exploring forests, observing plants and animals, and examining the exposed rock of the Canadian Shield fostered a lifelong curiosity about the quiet processes of transformation, adaptation, and change. Those early experiences continue to shape both the way I see the world and the way I make.
Clay has become the way I look more closely.
For many years, I made functional pottery and taught ceramics. While I continue to value that foundation, I gradually found myself asking different questions—questions that couldn't always be answered by function alone. That curiosity led me toward creating contemporary ceramic work that explores transformation, natural structures, and the hidden patterns that connect landscapes, living systems, and human experience.
Making is one of the ways I think. I often begin by carefully observing forms and processes found in nature, sometimes recreating them not simply to replicate them, but to better understand them. Through making, I discover details, relationships, and possibilities that frequently lead the work in unexpected directions. Observation becomes investigation, and investigation becomes a way of understanding.
Receiving a late diagnosis of autism and ADHD gave me a new framework for understanding the way I had always experienced the world. It didn't change who I was; it helped me recognize that the curiosity, pattern recognition, and close observation that had shaped my life were also fundamental to my creative practice. Rather than changing my work, it gave me permission to trust the instincts that had quietly guided it all along.
My practice continues to evolve. While it remains grounded in careful observation of the natural world, I am increasingly interested in the connections between external landscapes and our inner lives—how ceramics can become a quiet language for exploring resilience, fracture and repair, belonging, and the interplay between the seen and unseen. More than anything, I hope my work invites viewers to slow down, look closely, and discover what often goes unnoticed.