PO Box 27
South Newfane, VT 05351
802.348.7927

I started making pottery in 1969 at the University of Vermont when I was about to graduate with a degree in philosophy and realized that I needed to learn how to do something practical. I thought that making pots would provide me with an income. Against the expectations of everyone else, it has done just that. George Scatchard was the pottery teacher at UVM. in the late sixties. Although rather terse, he was visually an excellent teacher. It was an exciting time to work in the plastic arts, with the inspiration of Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner and Micheal Cardew to charge the atmosphere. Ken Pick and Lucinda Rochester both taught me how to throw and are still making pottery
today. George Scatchard inspired a whole generation of young potters who are scattered around Vermont making many styles of pottery.

After working with stoneware and then porcelain for close to ten years I began to concentrate on raku. This discipline suits my impatient nature, and it shows off the shapes more dramatically than high-fi red work. I like the potential for the unexpected that is intrinsic to this method. I attempt to set the stage for certain outcomes, but the fire with its carpriciousness ultimately decides what results will come forth. I spent four months at an artist colony, Altos de Chavon in Santo Domingo, where I developed an appreciation for the simplicty of the form. I went from there to the Banff Center the following year in the Canadian Rockies. Several trips to Andalusia in Southern Spain gave me greater appreciation for the beauty of the thrown shapes of antiquity which one may hopefully see in the pieces I make today. I use glazes similar to those used by the ancient Egyptians and Persians.