In over two decades on the pottery wheel, I’ve strived to throw pots that are pleasing to the eye, at least theoretically functional, and represent personal variations on classic forms.

My more functional work centers on dinnerware and mugs. As a coffee connoisseur and home coffee roaster, I try to throw mugs that are worthy of my coffee, and vice versa. For decorative work, I’ve focused particularly on lidded jars, both large and small, some of which have proved appropriate as urns.

I started throwing pots in 1999, a couple of years after a series of work trips to Eastern Europe ended. On those trips, I collected pots that I surrounded myself with at home. When the trips ended, and with them my source for nice pots, I decided to try to make some myself.

Most of my work has been produced in community studios, in the Washington, DC area and around Florida. I built my Gainesville home studio in 2021.

For most of the 2000s, I fired my pots in wood, soda and salt kilns, enjoying their unique glaze and surface benefits. For the last several years I’ve fired exclusively in gas kilns.

Over the years, my pots have been displayed in exhibitions in various locales around Maryland and Florida, and in Gainesville at the Gainesville Fine Arts Association and Charlie Cummings Gallery.