Art has always been a part of my life. As a child I constantly drew and in college Art was my major. However, my college career was cut short by poor grades (in all but my art classes) and the Selective Service. I joined the military, got married, had children and my priorities became my family and my job. My art became a hobby. Finally my children grew and I retired; my artistic muse re-awoke.
Much of my art career has been focused around two dimensional art...painting, lino prints, and just drawing. Clay brings in the third dimension and is an art form to which I’ve been attracted since I first sat down at the potter’s wheel in college. There is something cathartic about putting your hands in clay of the earth and creating something new and beautiful.
I seem to have been attracted to the “Steampunk” genre, not because it is popular, I thought Steampunk had died, but because Steampunk allows for unlimited creativity, providing me total freedom in creating my works. Steampunk is typically described as a neo-Victorian, retro-futuristic, industrial art form that takes shape in many media from clothing to mechanical creations. Trying to avoid the cliché of ‘everything with gears’, my Steampunk Pottery consists of ceramics objects (some functional, some not) with bolts and screws and rivets, and some with vacuum tubes and light bulbs from a pre-digital age. Whether a bowl or a purely imaginative piece, they are all embellished with a little Steampunk.
I hope you enjoy my art as much as I enjoy creating it.
Exhibits: 2019 - Santa Cruz Threater and Gallery 2019 - Carver Library 2019 - Sunset Valley Artfest, Sunset Valley TX 2018 - Vets Art Show 2018 - Sunset Valley Artfest, Sunset Valley TX 2018 - Bandit Salon 2018 - Texas Clay Arts Association 'Six Pack' Show, San Angelo TX 2017 - East Austin Handmade Artists Yule Bazaar 2017 - TCAA, Rockport Art Center, Rockport TX 2017 - Old Bakery Consignee Show 2017 - Hive Mind, RAD Collective 2017 - Sunset Valley Artfest, Sunset Valley TX 2016 - Pflugerville Public Library, Pflugerville TX 2016 - Hops & Grain 2016 - RAD Collective @ The Parlor 2016 - Sunset Valley Artfest, Sunset Valley TX 2016 - Texas Clay Arts Association 'Six Pack' Show, San Angelo TX 2016 - Marketplace Art Gallery - Guest Artist 2016 - Riverbend Inspirational Gallery 2015 - Bass Concert Hall 2015 - Pflugerville Public Library, Pflugerville TX 2015 - Fruit & Veggie Art Show ~ Counter Culture 2014 - Georgetown Art Center 5x7 Show EAST 2014 - Forest Hills Gallery 2014 - Breckenridge Fine Arts Center, Breckenridge TX 2013 - The Lowry Arts Centre, Salford Quays, UK
Where to Buy: Old Bakery & Emporium 1006 Congress Ave, Austin Jerry's Art Market (2nd Saturday) 6010 N IH 35, Austin
Juried Shows: 2019 - Link & Pin Gallery 2017 - Link & Pin Gallery 2017 - [imagine] Round Rock Arts 2016 - Art Gallery at the Old Bakery & Emporium 2015 - Austin Visual Artists Association Fall Show 2015 - CAS Show at the Dougherty Arts Center 2015 - 154 Square Inch Show, Link & Pin 2014 - Art Gallery at the Old Bakery & Emporium 2014 - Art Hop (four works), Georgetown Texas 2013 - Austin Visual Artists Association Members 2013 - Austin Visual Artists Association Fall Show 2012 - Art Hop, Georgetown Texas
Memberships: Creative Arts Society (President) Texas Clay Arts Association Greater Austin Clay Artists Austin Artists Network