I create hand-built ceramic sculpture and mixed media wall panels in my studio in Potomac, Maryland. The wall works pair stoneware forms with painted, textured grounds, built up in layers the way I once built a canvas. A new body of work, Illumination, brings light into the clay, with lamps, pendants and chandeliers whose glazes change as light moves across them. My painting practice continues alongside, and it shapes how I think about every surface I make.