National Tea Pot Show IV, Cedar Creek Gallery, N.C. 2008
Ceramic Showcase_, Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Ore. 2008
“Your Art Doesn’t Have to Match Your Sofa”_ Thurman Street Gallery, Portland, Sept. 2008
“Dias de Los Muertos”_ Guardino Gallery, Portland, 2008
“Little Things 8”_ Guardino Gallery, Portland, 2008
Oregon Potters Assoc. Studio Sales, Portland, 2008
Thurman Street Gallery Holiday Sale, Portland, 2008
“Matters of the Heart”_ Guardino Gallery, Portland, 2009
Ceramic Showcase, Oregon Convention Center, 2009
“Bird Matters”_ Guardino Gallery, June 2009
Bellevue Arts Museum Artsfair, July 22-24,Bellevue, Wash. 2009
Sun Valley Center Arts & Crafts Festival, Ketchum, ID, Aug 2009
"Dias de Los Muertos," Oct. Guardino Gallery, Portland, 2009
Stark Street Studio Sale, Oct. 10, 2009
Thurman Street Studios Holiday Sale
Women in Crafts, San Francisco, Dec. 6-9, 2009
"Little Things 8," Dec.,Guardino Gallery, Portland, 2009
"Functional Pottery," Beet Gallery, Portland, Dec. 2009
"Matters of the Heart," Guardino Gallery, Feb. 2010
Hop & Vine Auction for OCCA, Feb 17, 2010
Ceramic Showcase, Portland Convention Center, Apr 2010
Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, Co, July 4-7 2010

Thurman Street Studios
2774 Northwest Thurman Street
Portland, OR 97210-2205
(503) 228-2477

I live in Portland, Oregon and make functional pottery for cooking and serving, for holding flowers, and items to jazz up your table! My pieces are one-of-a-kind and made out of terra cotta clay. The clay is full of iron which distorts my bold use of bright colors to give the surface a soft, aged, and weathered appearance. I throw on the wheel and stretch and shape the piece to give it a personality. Repetitive floral patterns remembered from old wall papers and silly, whimsical bird drawings decorate my pottery.

Since relocating my pottery business from Asheville, North Carolina, it has been quite a change of lifestyle. I experience the dramatic weather changes of the Pacific Northwest as I bike across a river to my studio.