GSclayArt, Charlotte NC

I use high fire porcelain and stoneware clay bodies to create vessels and forms using wheel and handbuilding techniques.

I create my surfaces using slip transfer, brushwork, silk screening, sgraffito ,slip trailing, Underglaze, glaze, decals and luster to create rich layered history in my work.

Ceramist, painter, sculptor, and teacher, I create expressionist vessels that unite the fine and decorative arts with works in painting and ceramics. My oeuvre exhibits aesthetic consistency.

Continually manipulating plastic clay and surface with the wheel and handbuiding techniques, I allude to historical influence while creating works of unusual depth. Foot, naval, and surface characterize my decidedly anthropomorphic vessels. A casual approach to drawing, form, and color are solid strengths of my “painted” and slip transfer vessels.

I currently work as a studio artist, instructor and resident artist at The Cornwell Center. I exhibit at Clayworks and The Cornwell Center galleries locally and have been part of regional museum exhibitions and publications. I spend most of my studio time on intuitive exploration and commissioned work. I have had the honor of being awarded commissions by national and local organizations for commemorative vessels and sculptures.

Born in Macon Georgia in 1969. As a child, I worked with my Grandmother who was a ceramic crafts person in Lizella Georgia, learning ceramic process and painting techniques while developing a fascination for the changes that occur in the kiln. Granny Scott was an obvious first inspiration, it seemed she could make anything with clay. Moving to Charlotte in 1980, my exposure to the arts and culture in Charlotte was through school programs and museum visits that turned out to be the catalyst for my interest in painting, sculpture, and theater. After graduating from South Mecklenburg High School I attended East Carolina University School of Art.

After receiving a BFA from ECU with a concentration in painting I returned to Charlotte to work for Paramount Production Support as a scenic painter and eventually digital designer, while working in my studio with every free moment, working to bring the paint, clay, drawing, and digital art together.

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