To put my love of working in stoneware in a few words,  is difficult at best.  Do I begin with my first acquaintances with the work of Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada, and Warren MacKenzie?  Perhaps recount my pilgrimage to Leach’s studio in St. Ives, England.  Maybe best to simply say, I find joy in producing good, affordable, useful, handmade pots.  Ware to be used, everyday. In short, functional.  

I find stoneware, a bridge between earthenware, (a low fire, clay generally containing an amount of iron oxide, accounting for its red/brown color) and to the bone white china clays and porcelains of fine dinnerware. Stoneware’s elasticity and wide range of firing and maturing temperature accommodate the range of work I produce. If you wish a specific piece produced, it will be necessary for me to receive as complete a description as possible with your request.  I work with a clay body called B Clay, manufactured by Continental Clay in Minnesota.  It fires to a white and allows for bright glazes as required.  Other clays are available.

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