ABOUT

My whole adult life I have been a self-taught entrepreneur — since I was 22 years old, I have owned and operated four different businesses on the East Coast. As I have gotten older and moved through various stages in my life, I have realized that change, education of all kinds, and newness are all vital to my evolution as a person and as an artist. In 2019 a decision was made to move to Santa Fe from Washington, D.C. (though the pandemic had other ideas in store) but it wasn’t until October of 2020 that I finally landed in Santa Fe, NM in pursuit of that newness, and have been pinching myself ever since. This truly is The Land of Enchantment!

After 13 years of running my own professional photography business, I retired from photography in 2016 ready and committed to embark on a whole new creative adventure! When you are a professional photographer, your computer screen can suck up hours of your life. In the couple years leading up to my retirement, my desire to draw, paint, and get messy was rapidly bubbling very close to the surface and I needed an outlet! In 2017 I had the opportunity to take a ceramics class at ODU in Norfolk, VA. I had always longed to try my hand at ceramics, but for some reason it seemed so far out of reach. So, when this opportunity arose, I jumped at the chance and I haven’t looked back since!

I spent two semesters with two very different professors soaking up all I could about clay and glaze making, and I started to find some strong footing as my knowledge grew. 

As I considered my next journey, a scouting mission to New Mexico in 2019 had me walk into a warm and welcoming pottery studio called Green River Pottery. During that visit, I instantly got the vibe that there is an incredibly rich and diverse ceramics community here, including hundreds of other talented and dedicated artists working and living their creative passion. I knew at that moment that this was a place that could foster and nurture my own creative journey. After moving here and spending about a year working at Green River as the studio manager, I have since branched off on my own, working and spending my days in my own studio on my 6 acre homestead just south of Santa Fe. Here I spend my weeks, days, and hours fully immersed in teaching myself new techniques and letting my intuition guide my making. I am never married to one style for too long, preferring instead to jump around and continue to play and explore the boundaries of my own imagination.