“What draws me to clay is the simple idea of adding objects to the world that didn’t exist before”.
In the winter of 2020, Fritz, my Border Terrier, led me to the doorstep of Greenwich House, an ancient ceramic studio in the West Village. From then onwards I have explored slip casting and hand building. My inspiration is autobiographical, the world at large. My background as an art historian (Courtauld Institute of Art 1984-1986) leads me to infinite places, finding contemporary meaning to Bernard Palissy’s plates, George Ohr’s fragility, Philip Guston’s shocking tableaus. My first recognizable forms were imaginary closed books, sometimes projecting out from the wall like a Judd “Stack”. The forms and glazes may suggest things we recognize but these remain open to many levels of reading.