I walked into a pottery studio in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1969 and sat down at a potter’s wheel to try to turn a spinning lump of clay into a bowl, a side road from an academic path that turned into a lifelong passion.... the clay, making pots, being a potter. It grabbed me! I started making stoneware pieces: sturdy, earthy and functional, they spoke to both the ancestral and timeless beauty of clay forms.
In 1996, I found a small crystalline plate at a gallery in Adelaide, Australia, I returned home ready to start the crystalline experimenting I'd thought about for years: with glazes formulas and firing schedules, with different colorant combinations, and with different kilns. Ever since, I have been working exclusively with crystalline glazes, always looking forward to opening the next kiln.