I grew up in Central Texas, where my German great-grandparents had settled to farm and raise their families. I earned a degree in history from North Texas State University and joined the Air Force to see more of the world, doing tours in Tennessee, Thailand, and Okinawa. My current work in clay seems to have some roots in the architecture of those early Texas settlers as well as handmade structures of other cultures.
I make what I do in clay because I want to.
For several years I worked for environmental consulting firms in Austin as a map maker, and the graphic skills that I learned there have found their way into the three-dimensional space of my work as well as its surface decoration.
I live in a small house in the hill country west of Austin and work in a studio near by. The studio has the solitude I need to work and view of the surrounding fields and trees. The cats wander in and out, and in the evenings the deer come up to be fed. It’s a good place to think – and to work.
I make what I do
in clay because I want to. The sculptural pieces I create have architectural
structure with occasional references to nature. It is difficult to talk about
the pieces, because what is true one day may not be the next. What you swear
by one day you curse the next. As with all things in nature, a state of flux
is the rule and change means all is well. Static ideas and static work are
a form of death.