Quebec

 For over forty years, my partner David McKenzie and I have worked as studio potters in Wakefield Quebec, an artistic community north of Ottawa where we built our home/studio/gallery.

In the past few years, I have had exhibitions, group and solo (with David McKenzie) at The Art Gallery Of Burlington, The Carnegie Gallery in Dundas Ontario, Charlie Cummings Gallery in Florida, Companion Gallery in Tennessee, The Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery in Waterloo and at The Jonathon Bancroft-Snell Gallery in London Ontario.

Throughout these years, I have been preoccupied with surface decoration on functional pottery forms. There has been an steady evolution in my work, an increasingly refined intensity in surface decoration on porcelain based on a love of pattern and the ways in which repetitive motifs can be used to enhance a simple form.

When decorating a piece of pottery with an intense overall pattern, nothing is rushed. The design is built up incrementally using fine Japanese brushes and wax resist. This slow, cumulative, organic method induces a meditative approach that requires slowing down and appreciating the material, the process and the pleasure of working with one's hands