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;

                            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 retail businesses - a craft and antique shop and a craft gallery, built a gas kiln and continued

                            making pots while availing myself of the wonderful intensive workshops 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 gallery and 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 in the early 80's we moved

                           to Montecito, a lovely town just south of Santa Barbara. The town gave me a permit to work at home and 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 days of brick cutting.

                           Our current home, studio studio and gallery are in the small town of Bakersville, in the beautiful mountains of

                           western North Carolina.

RESUME

                          List of some of the workshops I've attended:

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

    MEMBERSHIPS

                        American Ceramic Society

                        Toe River Arts Council

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