APPROACH TO MAKING POTS
My pottery making is rooted in functionality, in the
desire to make things that people can use. This may take the
shape of a cup or bowl for the dinner table, or a large slab
container for flowers. I make each pot individually by hand,
throwing on the potters wheel or assembling from slabs and
coils. And using the principles of simplicity and directness
to guide my work, I strive to create pottery with a freshness
of surface and buoyancy of form.
I most enjoy working in series, making limited numbers
of a form and then moving on to the next one. This way of
working is conducive to efficient production in the studio,
but more than that, it allows me to explore a form and to
hopefully come to new understandings. Sometimes it will be
that 12th teacup I throw on a quiet morning where the
proportion of body to rim finally feels right, and by the
20th cup, I seem to be sailing along effortlessly.
