I find Nature’s creations fascinating and beautiful things. They are sometimes woven into what appear to me as fantasy worlds. My study of life forms often focuses specifically on plant life. What about plants that are both mobile and have feelings? Perhaps they are no longer plants, at all. Yet, it is these plants, these living creatures, that are the subject of my art.

The plants that are my artwork, are creatures that exist beyond the realm of what is normally considered to be a plant. They appear as figures who, perhaps, had been moving around independently only moments before, whose breathing is almost audible. I hope that through my art the viewer will look afresh at plants as living creatures.

When I create my plants, I imagine something that all living creatures in the world having in common — their cells. The shapes and colors of cells are the foundation upon which I envision the patterns that I knead into the clay. I constantly seek, in all of my works, to generate a kind of animate? Envisioning my plants, down to their very cells, is the technique I use to breath life and spirit into them.