During the last 28 years I’ve worked as a ceramic studio artist and professor of art at Utah State University.  Over the years, I’ve created thousands of pots with the intent that they are quick expressive moments, each made swiftly and directly on a slow spinning potter’s wheel. A consistent goal remains, create gestural vessels that reflect my presence in the finished form. Pieces are made in multiples, like families of pots that are inevitably related, yet each piece stands as a unique one-of-a-kind vessel. Most are fired without applied glazes to stoneware temperatures in wood-burning kilns. Colors and textures on the ceramics result from the interaction of clay, wood and fire. My hope is that each successive generation produces a better piece. I feel a connection to contemporary as well as ancient ceramics and strive to create objects that will withstand the test of time.