My influences...

Noticing a small landscape framed within one of my larger porcelain pieces, a customer recently asked me what kind of influences I had in my pottery... I answered that there is quite a long list overall, but that the particular vase he referred to was actually an environmental statement veiled behind the play and dance of the reaction of metallic oxides in glazes with each other within the fire... These results are somewhat controlled but total success depends on chance... I am heavily influenced by early Asian pottery, particularly Sung dynasty work; and I appreciate the American arts & craft movement and the European studio art potters of the past century as well... Since becoming an artist-in-residence at Tamarack: The Best Of West Virginia, I have found new influences, such as the incredible mountains and streams in the area... Music is also a constant part of my creative process... As a self-confessed news junkie, political statements find their way into my work, as well, mixed with elements of building structures of the past, present, and future... http://www.tamarackwv.com