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 practice encompasses ceramics, natural foraged materials, printmaking, installation, and interdisciplinary, community-based art. I work as an artist and arts-based educator at the intersection of art and ecology. 

For the past two decades, ceramics has been the primary focus of my studio practice.  Creating studio pottery with an emphasis on functionality and quiet simplicity.  While I continue to make small-batch pottery, I am also interested in how art can contribute to personal, social, and ecological healing and provide new ways to relate to and imagine our human place in the natural world.  I am working with place-based natural materials, Mokuhanga, a non-toxic, water-based Japanese woodblock printing technique, and ceramics to create biodegradable works on paper, sculptures and installations.  These works are small acts of reciprocity and investigations into the role of repetition in practice and the process of change. 

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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