I grew up in my parents pottery studio in the mountains of North Carolina. I finished my Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics at the University of North Texas May 2014 and am now back in North Carolina making pots in my home studio.

Pottery has been a tactile interaction for me all of my life. Every dish that passed through my hands as a child was made by my father. Pottery was never the untouched piece on the top shelf of the china cabinet; it was the much loved mug that you dig for every morning because somehow the coffee just tastes better out of that one. I want my work to have that same immediacy of being handled or interacted with every day of someone’s life. When I love a piece of pottery, my first instinct is to pick it up, touch it, feel it, see how it fits in my hand, talk to it on the most intimate level, skin to skin. I can wish for nothing more than for my work to invite that same easy interaction.