My interest in ceramics started in high school where we had a ceramic arts program and studio.  Following high school, I beccame an apprentice with Oz Parsons pottery in Toronto, ON.  This was an amazing experience – working in a full time production studio for a year and a half before going to college.   In 1983, I received a 3 year Design Arts diploma with a Major in Ceramics from Georgian College in Barrie, Ontario studying under Roger Kerslake and Alek Sorotschynski.  With the opportunity to continue my education for another year, I studied Visual Arts at York University.  While working part and full time in the post secondary IT industry, I maintained a ceramics studio and was an active member in the Durham Potters Guild. 

I live in Revelstoke, BC and work in a dedicated studio here at home.  I love being here. 

Over the past couple of years I had decided to dedicate my time to working with translucent porcelain to see how I could incorporate light into my work and what effects this could foster.  “Nerikomi” is a Japanese term for working with blended clays and/or coloured clays.  Neri meaning "to mix" and komi meaning "to press into" perhaps suggesting it relates to handbuilding.  Using the Nerikomi technique with translucent porcelain along with blending the coloured clays using a rolling pin can create landscape-like imagery.  It was never my intent to specifically portray the landscape in my work but more to allude to the idea. Perhaps more of a feel or mood.

I try to spend as much time as I can outdoors in this wonderful environment - the mountains, valley’s and rivers that are often hidden and revealed by the fog and an endless source of inspiration.