My pottery addresses the notion of utility. The daily use of a dinner set is my main focus. A question in my work is coordination; I believe it is the ornament that links the individual pieces into a set, despite the difference between forms. What relates these pieces is the idiosyncratic repetitions of ornament layered with changing accent colors overtop.
I ornament each piece intuitively, a decision based on my own ideas of aesthetics. I want to create moments of clarity versus moments of complexity within the ornament by layering surfaces. To achieve this I perfectly apply some flowers and then I allow colors to flow over top of other flowers. It is my hope that the layered surfaces will keep the viewer’s eye moving
