My focus is making pottery for twenty-five years has been about wandering within the material. I’m better at asking questions than I am at providing answers. If there is a defining goal for me over this time, it’s been to make drawings that are pots and pots that are drawings. It’s never been my intention to have a style, there were times I pursued “style”, but most of the time it was aspect or technique that I lifted from elsewhere and then I proceeded to beat it into the ground. It’s taken me a long time to express myself within the material. Part of that was developing a toolbox of skills, but another part of that was me just getting tired of not being honest with who I am or what I am interested in. People often say to me “you change your work so much”. I’m not sure what to say. I’ve never seen it as much of a change, its just evolution for myself. If I couldn’t do that then I would find something else to do.
I stumbled in to making pots at Bemidji State University in 1996. The material and the rich tradition of craft in Minnesota was alluring. Over the course of time, I worked in a Lowertown St. Paul, eventually a basement St. Paul home studio, and now to studio in Shafer. We’ve been putting on the Backyard Sale in since 2010 and recently my family and I started hosting the St. Croix Valley Pottery Tour. Fun is always the goal.