Artist Statement
I have always loved animals, but I am enchanted by birds! Their variety and vitality, their rainbow
feathers and forest concerts, have always invited my soul to join them in flight. Now I shape
handfuls of clay into wings, claws, strong beaks, plump bellies. I playfully arrange and attach
their parts to survive the intensive heat needed for them to become stoneware. Each is then
glazed with a bath of satin white enriched by veins of copper and bronze. Finally, each emerges....
and I am always overjoyed by its uniqueness.