Untamed

With a long career in sports medicine and sports performance, I have always been intrigued by the body, its form and the stories it tells. The relationship between my background in sports performance and my creative process is in honoring those stories. I am drawn to the fluidity of the human body. I am particularly interested in the female form, its grace and strength as well as its emotional and physical flexibility. The body is never mute. Through posture and gesture it sends out powerful messages of vulnerabilities, insecurities, courage and self confidence. My work gravitates towards this communication. It is highly rewarding to be able to be take something intangible and communicate it in a way that can be experienced by others. I find the process of creating cathartic. Often times I allow myself to start with a block of clay with no idea of what may emerge from it. I start moving the clay around until a form takes shape and pay close attention to what I feel until I have a vision of what it could be. And while the outcome is not yet known, I indulge in its potential. Once the work is complete, it is either fired and finished in acrylics or cast in composites or foundry bronze.