Sculptural Work
2024 Title Whispering Minerals, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from compressed sawdust
2024 Title Whispering Minerals, detail, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from compressed sawdust
2024 Title Awaiting Emergence, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from big leaf maple ash
2024 Title Storing Roots, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from local apple tree ash
2024 Title Storing Roots, detail, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from local apple tree ash
2024 Tracing Stillness 1, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from bigleaf maple ash
2025 Tracing Stillness 2, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from local apple tree ash
2025 Hearing Cedar’s Whistle, high-fire wood-ash glaze made from local bigleaf maple ash
Work in Progress and Process
Vertical and horizontal arrangement of thrown and altered hollow discs in drying phase
These arrangments compositions made for the Tracing Stillness series, #4 is the horizontal
Glaze tests of six PNW trees, left: bigleaf maple, hemlock, birch, douglas-fir, alder, red cedar
Glaze test tiles in detail, left: bigleaf maple, hemlock, birch
Glaze test tiles before firing, arranged in species groups
Sieving burnt wood to separate the charcoals
Fine ash powder for mixing glaze
Mixing glaze
High fire kiln and another pile of wood
High fire kiln with the shed next to it
Tracing Stillness 3 after firing in the kiln before uploading
2024 sketches for sculptural work, which will become the Awaiting Emergence series
2025 sketch of adding light effects to the ceramic mass
Experimenting with light effect variations in the Awaiting Emergence piece
Working on a series of shed lamps with wood ash glaze ceramic base
Experimenting with a custom wood veneer shade, potentially matches the base ash