Vessels

A collection of ceramic vessels. You can find available ceramics here.

speckled clay, underglaze, glaze, 22k gold luster

Collaborations with Shay

As a ceramicist I only make pieces using handbuilding techniques. But over the past few years I have occasionally collaborated with a ceramicist who throws large piece on the wheel. The ceramicist, Shay, can be found here.

PAGEANT

PAGEANT is a fold out illustrated adventure which follows a triumph pageant. Women is fancy dress prepare feasts, parade through streets, and perform sacrifices in thanks for their triumphs.

Limited edition zine that measures 8.25 x 10.5 inches. This zine is a combination of photocopy and risograph printing. Approx. 15 pages including fold out pages.

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First Edition

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The Things I Hear

An ongoing series of wall-mounted ceramic plates and vessels all featuring cartoon bubbles with snippets of overheard conversations. Available plates can be found here.

planter: stoneware, underglaze, glaze, 22k gold luster

stoneware, underglaze, glaze, hemp cord

red clay, underglaze, glaze, hemp cord, 2022

reclaimed clay, underglaze, glaze, 2022

speckled clay, slip, underglaze, glaze, hemp cord, 2022

stoneware, underglaze, glaze, hemp cord, 2022

To The Witch's House We Go

To the Witch’s House We Go, is a coloring zine with hand-cut pages in various shapes. You can find available copies here.

Extravagant Journey, an exquisite corpse storybook

Extravagant Journey was a project I started in the early days of covid. I had 8 writers create an exquisite corpse story based on a series of drawings I’d completed the previous year. It is available online here.

Dreaming Through the Apocalypse

Dreaming Through the Apocalypse is an art zine that is the final component of my Dream House series. This zine is available here. Support for this project came from the Regional Arts & Culture Committee. In the spring of 2023 I digitally changed the color of my original paintings and published a second edition of the zine.

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Extravagant Creatures

Extravagant Creatures is a solo exhibit I staged at Paragon Gallery in Portland, Oregon from December 2022-January 2023. Over the course of the past three years, between world turmoil and personal tragedies, Extravagant Creatures has slowly taken shape. My desire has been to create objects and art that hold a promise of distraction with beauty and humor but as a viewer sits with these pieces the dread and anxiety of the world around us creeps back in. At this current time, there is no place for distraction and as an artist, I feel the need to keep pushing my viewers out of spaces of comfort with gentle nudges. The works span both ceramics and works on paper, creatures fanciful and absurd abound in both mediums.

Hairy Leg Planters

Following are some of my favorite things to create: Hairy Leg Planters. I create planters with a variety of clay bodies, everything from porcelain to stoneware to reclaimed clays. All of my available ceramics can be purchase through my Etsy shop. I’m also open to commission projects, please contact me for details.

Disco Goddess Hairy Leg Planter; ceramic, underglaze, glaze, and 22k gold luster; available for sale here

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Dream Girls

Dream Girls are a series of ceramic sculptures based on a dream I had in late 2020. In the dream, I was loading a firing shelf with little busts of women with ornate hair and clothing and words scrawled across their chest. I went into the studio the next day and began this series. You can shop my available ceramic work through my shop.

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Dream House

Dream House is a series of paintings and ceramics inspired by dreams had by myself and others over the course of the covid-19 pandemic. The pieces were shown together at the Lolopass Gallery in Portland, OR during May 2022. The project was funded in part by RACC.

Dream House show installed at Lolopass in May 2022

Don’t Worry About That One, She’s Only a Metaphor

The Last Dream

This Sinking Feeling

In the lead up to the Dream House show at Lolopass, I installed a ceramic box with a slot. Next to the box I left little worksheets where visitors could write down their dream with the intention that these dreams might eventually become additional art pieces or perhaps a zine.

Potion Bottles

My Potion Bottle series started with some strange vessels that I decided to start adding corks to. I like thinking they are for potions or spellwork.

Bird Priestess Potion Bottle; clay, underglaze, glaze, and 22k gold luster; 2022

Walking Mountains

My Walking Mountains zine is inspired by a body of ceramic work I created in 2021 of the same name (you can view that project here). In this zine I wanted to tell more of the story of these women. The original paintings were created entirely with gouache. The finished zine is digitally printed and each page is cut and assembled by me. You can purchase copies of the zine here.

Lumpy Priestess Vessels

Priestess Vessels are a series of handpainted & handbuilt ceramic vessels which I began in 2021. These ceramics, along with my full range of ceramics, are available here in my Etsy shop.

She Had Only Birds

2022 Illustrated Calendars

Every year I illustrate a new calendar. This year features 13 pages of house themed illustrations on house shaped paper. You can purchase a copy through my etsy shop while supplies last.