BIOGRAPHY/RESUME

My pottery education has been self directed. For the past thirty five years I've studied  both independently as well as with some of the best potters of our time.

My interest in pottery started in my thirties after a successful modeling career with the Eileen Ford agency. At the time I was raising my young family and took my first evening ceramic class at the local high school; and I was immediately hooked.

Soon after that we moved to Ontario, Canada where my husband Jim worked in television. In the six years we lived there, I started two galleries, built a gas kiln and continued my ceramic work while availing myself of the wonderful classes offered at the many local colleges in Southern Ontario.

After six years in Canada, my husband was offered a television show (Card Sharks) in Southern California, so we sold the house and my gallery, and we packed up and headed west. Our children were thrilled with the prospect and quickly adapted to the joys of California living - surfing, skateboarding, tennis and snow skiing in shorts. It was teenage heaven!

I set up a studio in the garage in our house in Northridge for a couple of years and then we moved to Montecito, a lovely town just south of Santa Barbara. There we converted our large garage into a wonderful, Japanese style studio for me and  the town gave me a permit to build a double bourry box wood kiln that I had designed. Tom Collins, who  had been an apprentice to Peter Voulkos built the kiln while I contributed to days of brick cutting.

After a few more moves we headed east when my husband retired. My current studio is in Bakersville, North Carolina.

RESUME

Below is list of some of the workshops I've attended:

Gordon Barnes (Seneca College, Ontario Canada - Kiln design Intensive)

    MEMBERSHIPS

American Ceramic Society

Toe River Arts Council

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