Creating in clay is my mid-life artistic awakening!  From memories of high school ceramic classes and library visits, I became reacquainted with the wheel and sharpened my skills apprenticing with American and New Zealand trained potters.  After seven years of teaching pottery, I opened The Pottery Studio Gallery in Littleton, Colorado.  For the past five years, I have represented over forty Colorado artists as I work from my Aspen Vignettes’ studio.  Southwest landscape and regional wildlife wall sculptures and fountains in stoneware clay comprised my initial work.  Once introduced to Raku-firing, I focused on sandglasses, bowls with weaving, labyrinths, and torus sculptures incorporating Celtic, Native American, and universal tribal aesthetics.  In “Blade Series,” elements of mythic themes, archeological artifacts, and the human form have come together more personally.  A blade can injuriously sever yet bring forth a resolving release.  The chains, like ancient clay pottery shards, represent everlasting connections from cultures past to our contemporary lives.