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I am a computer
programmer and have been in the computer industry for just over
30 years. Before the fall of 1997 I had no prior art experience
at all. That fall I started taking weekly classes at the Rec
Dept in Kennesaw Ga taught by Patty Caldwell. I took classes for
just over three years. I bought my own wheel after one year and
a year later I bought an electric kiln and worked out of my
basement studio and mixed my own glazes. In addition I’ve
attended numerous raku workshops taught by Rick Berman, Carol
Brull and Jerry Machinot. I’ve also attended a 10 day workshop
by Dolly Noranjo at her studio just outside Santa Fe, New Mexico
on Native American hand building and firing and am strongly
influenced by Native American pottery. I have also attended 3
anigama workshops at the Hambidge House in Rayburn Gap, Ga. I do
cone 6 electric kiln firing, raku, horsehair and some pit
firing. In August of 2003 my wife and I moved from Atlanta metro
area to South Georgia. I had a studio built and produce all my
pottery there. My work can be purchased at Burton's Gallery and
Emporium just out of Clarkesville Georgia and at the Georgia
Heritage Center for the Arts in Tallulah Falls Georgia. |
