hello world.

I'm a semi-professional dirt dauber who moved from the Gulf Coast to the Upper Left Coast fifteen years ago and never looked back. These days I work out of Seattle, making functional ceramics that I hope are easy for people to love.

I've been working in clay since 2016, primarily on the wheel, with my focus being objects meant for daily life—cups, jars, teapots, the kind of things that earn a permanent spot on their owners counters and shelves. I’m a deeply sentimental person at heart, and I’m enamored with the emotional attachments people form with their favorite belongings. I want to make things that earn a place in their owners’ hearts—objects that catch the eye, reward the hand, and become part of the small rituals that fill our days. If a piece eventually becomes a fixture in someone's morning routine, I've done my job.

That goal shapes my whole process, from form to finish. I'm less interested in putting visuals on a piece than the visuals of the piece. The form itself should form the core of the decoration. Throwlines, groggy clay, facets, and coil applique are the bones of the work. I finish with glazes that respond to those bones: colors that break over sharp edges, oxides that pool in recessed textures, and surface finishes that reward the hand as much as the eye.

In recent years, I've found myself expanding the use of coil and slab appliqué in my work: adding elaborate, sculptural coil work built directly onto the surface of pieces that are still, at heart, meant to be used. What interests me recently is finding ways to fold that ornamentation into the function of the pot itself: a coiled form that catches the eye and makes you cock your head, then leads to an ‘aha’ moment once it’s in the hand. The decorative coil becomes part of a handle, a glaze drip turns out to be a finger rest, the bulbous spout on a teapot hides a strainer. I love finding ways to build small ergonomic puzzles that resolve the moment you pick the piece up.