Artist & Designer

As far back as I can remember, I have loved to draw more than doing any other activity.
In addition to drawing I also enjoyed painting and building, in essence: creating.
I grew up in Germany. My family and I moved to San Francisco when I was 17.
I went to San Francisco State University in my mid-twenties, and received a bachelor of arts with a major in visual arts & design and a minor in mathematics.
During that time I'd caught wind of an art competition that was being held by San Mateo County. Although I had no expectation of winning, I had such a passion for art that I decided to enter anyway and painted an 8'x8' mural with an ecology theme. I was awarded first place.
In the following years, my work as a designer and artist came quite natural to me and proved to be quite lucrative.
In 1998 I returned to school to broaden my horizons and learn about computers. I did this again at SFSU where at the same time I completed the task of getting my Master's of Arts in May of 1999.
While this did not present prosperity it did provide me with an irreplaceable sense of accomplishment...a very good feeling, indeed.
In recent years I returned to my first love: drawing & creating, working with porcelain clay. It feels wonderful to form my objects: to start with an idea and have some control and then to have the clay/media itself be suggestive during the process is, always, challenging and pleasantly tantalizing.
The building of my angels and wizards, among other things, and other forms, is really a very spontaneous process, whenever I build them.
Outside of a lingering image in my mind the only thing I know is the height I am aiming for. Sometimes not even that.
The completion of the object, its expression, glaze & color, really, all transpire curing the process. This makes each piece, most definitely, a unique and blessed surprise, even to myself, almost always. I won't speak of the ones that have never made it.
It is when I build my ceramics or do drawings or paintings that I am happiest.
It is my hope that some of this happy energy prevails within the pieces I create and will transfer to the recipient.