ABOUT

I am interested in human/nature relationships, the development of cultural meaning and value, and the process of change, both individual and collective. My interdisciplinary practice moves between ceramics, natural foraged materials, printmaking, installation, and community-based art. Across these forms, I explore how creative practice can cultivate attentiveness, reciprocity, and ecological imagination. I work as an artist and arts-based educator at the intersection of art and ecology. 

For the more than two decades, ceramics has been the foundation of my studio practice.  Creating studio pottery with an emphasis on functionality and quiet simplicity. My practice has since expanded to consider how material processes can reframe our understanding of place and belonging. I am working with place-based natural materials, Mokuhanga, a non-toxic, water-based Japanese woodblock printing technique, and clay to create works on paper, sculptures and installations.  These works are small acts of reciprocity and investigations into the role of repetition in the process of change. I continue to make small-batch functional ceramics for the everyday rituals of eating and drinking while also exploring how art can provide new ways to relate to and imagine our human place in the natural world.

I studied at the Kootenay School of the Arts, received a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts, and an MA from Royal Roads University. I currently reside on the traditional, unceded territory of the sn̓ʕay̓ckstx Sinixt Confederacy Arrow Lakes and Yaqan Nukiy Lower Kootenay Band peoples, in Nelson, BC. 

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