Artist Statement:

The clay vessel as a functional utilitarian home ware item has been in households for many generations in all civilizations of the world. In its design of form and for the task it is required it has been redefined over and over to give the most successful ease and operation for that which it was made for. The same vessel used daily in each country of origin has its own unique character and form.

We have been able to view pots from all parts of the world in museums and not only understand the characters of the clay body or the hardness of the fired pot, but the story that is told in the design that has been decorated on the vessel.

Sometimes it has been given us the path of that particular civilization that time has erased from all other sources of man made materials. Even when time has erased the form to leave us with a few broken shards, we have still been able to gather the remnants and read the story of those who first made the pot.

Form and decoration is a fusion of the two arts by the studio potter which give anyone the freedom to tell their story. This is a time capsule of recorded messages that carries on into future. My work and my record is my story, a celebration of life on this planet here and now. Without too much thoughts of its future life I like to think of my work being used daily and cherish by its owner.

Being here in Bali and working at Jenggala, this lush tropical landscape, ocean and sky and all that embraces within, is my inspiration in which to tell my story.