Aside from my career in manufacturing and big business, I am a potter. I am fascinated with clay, and fire, and the entire process of transforming a ball of mud into a finished piece of artwork.

 My background includes eight years of classes at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts.  I have attended workshops with many well known clay artists, including David Wright, Rodney Mott, Ian Currie, Randy Brodnax, Don  Ellis, Doug Gray, William Shinn, Tom and Elaine Coleman,  Lana Wilson, Paul Wandless, and Dee Shaad.  I am  President of  the Junction Clay Arts Guild,  an active, exhibiting member of Artspace and Open Studios, and maintain a membership in the Potter's Council of the American Ceramics Society.