These sculptures integrate hand-built ceramic, which is the primary medium, with wood, fresh water pearls, crystal beads, and semi-precious stones. Surfaces are applied with gold leaf and painted with oil. Sculptures are made complete with secret compartments which serve as hiding places for multiple and often times personal meanings. My recent work is based on narratives drawn from personal and historical events that are overlapped with subconscious images. The figures are like actors on a stage, enigmatic yet tense while being enveloped or encrusted within layers of overgrowth concealing a world within.

My hope for this project is to promote and showcase the extraordinary qualities of the viola.

Although oft-maligned and rarely considered a solo instrument, the viola, with its distinctive timbre, rich sonorous tone and closeness in range to the human voice, is capable of expression far exceeding its reputation.

I hope you will join me on this journey of discovery, and experience the same joy and beauty that this instrument, to which I have dedicated my life, can bring.