I am a multi-disciplinary artist making paintings, clay sculpture and functional ware under the design line ceramic scg.
Landscape informs my language with botanical renderings and open vistas of changing light. Recent paintings pull from observations gathered walking. These include a sense of place with ubiquitous flowers and building material, while sidewalk cracks and survey signs imply growth and change ahead. The encaustic, mixed media, layered works interpret the beauty and tension that result in the shared existence of humans and nature.
As a material, clay stretches my creative voice into a more physical place. I build sculptural shapes intuitively and wheel-throw pottery for daily life. There is a cross-pollination between media, a sense of space and mass are present in my paintings while ceramic pieces, functional or not, derive influence from drawings in nature.
Holistically, community is also my art. I have designed and founded Studio Union, a building that offers an inspiring and affordable work space for fellow artists in my city.
