Two great passions in my life are family and art. Through my work, I document my life's journey and experiences and capture emotions and pivotal events as I experience them. I was born and raised in the Midwest and fell in love with clay while taking a high school art class. I worked as a nurse for 20 years and received a BA in theology. It was when I retired from the nursing field that I could focus on my ceramic artwork.

I received my MA in art with a focus on ceramics, and I'm currently a graduate student working on my thesis for my MFA at Hood College. I have been featured in several juried exhibitions and MA solo show. I am currently working on my body of work for the completion of my MFA exhibition. I find the greatest fulfillment in my work when I can capture emotion in my sculpture and evoke that emotion in the viewer without the spoken word.

My body of work is wood-fired in anagama and train kilns. I am part of a firing team I have worked with for over eight years. They have become family to me, and I feel their influence in each piece I create through their dedication and love for the wood-firing process. Working with the flame to enhance and focus on my pieces' narrative is challenging and brings great rewards. Painting my work with fire and surrounding it with the aggressive atmosphere tell a story of each piece, rendering it one-of-a-kind and facilitates a dialogue between the work and the viewer. Clay and fire are the chosen mediums for my creative process. I am still amazed by their power and magic and the ability to capture my perceptions of life in a single form I can share with others