Quick Facts

Years As An Artist
Before I was a baby
Main Clay Body
I like a warm center with notes of ilmenite.
Primary Clay Building Methods
I do a lot of slab work is which is my art du jour, but I have go round every once in awhile.
Favorite Studio Tool
Head and hands
Clay Wishes or Dreams
To take it to the end

About Dave

The simplest and easiest explanation I can come up with is “I love it.”

Clay suits me and it fits my personality. As a child, I was always being reprimanded for playing in any mud puddle I could find. Growing up, there were no art classes - let alone ceramics -offered in school. I was clueless about clay until I went off to college.

My dorm was located across the street from the University’s ceramics department. I was always curious about the group of students who entered and left the building dressed in dirty jeans or tattered shorts with every body part covered in clay; so I investigated. What I discovered instantly changed my life, and I could hardly wait until the next semester to enroll in my first ceramics class “Introduction to Clay.” I was not disappointed. I went on to graduate with a BFA in Ceramics/Sculpture, and have been ever since then, “stuck in the mud.”