My practice is driven from a longing to create. It is a deep desire and need that I feel within, that pushes me to continue creating work and moving my artistic practice forward. As an artist, I use every part of me to create my ceramic forms. My work focuses on experimentation, exploring texture, and color. Through my practice, I am able to connect with my material, that being clay. Movement is mostly how I do that, through expressively moving my body, making impressions in the clay that show my makers mark. These movements are intuitive and how I express myself in this material. I am inspired by textures found in nature like crunchy moss, bark or the textures in the sea like urchins and corals. I play with texture in my pieces and push away from their natural appearance by using vibrant colors. I merge bright colors with crunchy textures. Within my creative process experimentation and play go hand in hand.