Artist Bio

With simplicity and inspirations of minimalist art, I began my journey as a potter at the age of 14. In my early to mid-teens I was searching for a directional path for my artistic potential. While it wasn’t set in stone (or clay!), what I liked or what style captivated me, there was a common denominator of simplicity in all of my work. Once I declared making my major concentration ceramics, I began exclusively creating minimalist pottery. I began to fall in love with the smooth textures and single-colored elegance of the Danish potter Eric Landon spiking my desire to create work in his fashion.

With minimalism as the goal, and countless hours in the pottery studio, a signature style began to emerge. I’ve created hundreds of wheel thrown and hand-built pottery pieces all simple and minimalistic to build an aesthetic for myself. I love being a functional potter who makes cups that fit into the palm of my hand. I make every piece with the intention that I am going to buy it even if I give them away or sell them.

            I spent the past three months working on a robot-like figure made out of functional, minimalist pottery (see photo in Profile). This represents the outrageous inevitability that artificial intelligence is taking over the world. I crafted a life size humanoid attempting creative activity. This representational figure conveys my aesthetic but instead of making something functional, it is sculptural.