successfully completing an MFA program at USC in Columbia, SC. I mixed my clay in a horse trough and air dried to throwing consistency,
the pots were fired to cone 10 (high-fired stoneware) in a sprung-arch wood burning kiln. My work was moving from slip trailing and celadon
glazes to slip trailing on colored slips that were unglazed.
I used a clay mixer to mix my own clay formula and a pugmill to wedge it before throwing it on the potter's wheel. I was accepted to exhibit
in the Southern Highland Craft Guild in 1989 and exhibit in the Guild Fairs and sell through their galleries. Unglazed ware was giving out
to celadons and glaze trailing on colored slips under celadons, and glaze trailing over celadons
which has evolved over the years I have used them. The kiln has been moved and reassembled again, it is now fired to cone 9 with propane.
Now I am slip and glaze trailing on glazed and unglazed pots combining colored slips with celadons and applying slips and glazes with my
fingers to achieve muliple layers of varying colors.