Handbuilt and textured tapered four-sided body made from joined bowl sections with thrown additions for neck and base. Approximatedly 20” tall x 10” x 10”. Multi-fire glaze treatment. Fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln.

A handbuilt form glazed with a metallic golden glaze. About 16” tall. A textured disk with golden stairway additions on a stylized base. Fired to cone 6 in an electric kiln.

An homage to Dame Lucie Rie who made many bowls of this form. We are sympatico in some way, in that I was told that some of my work was inspired by her, before I knew her pots, or who she was. A challenging form to throw, but fun. About 13” x 3.5” tall. Fired at cone 6 in an electric kiln.

Recently fired in a Soda/Salt kiln. Handbuilt from coils, about 12” tall.

The first in a series of cubical forms assembled from the joining of six textured bowl shaped forms along curving lines to create large jars. Approximately 15” tall by 14” x 13”

I have been represented by the Avenue Gallery on Oak Bay Avenue in Victoria BC since 2014. This jar was sold there.

A jar imprinted with a doily pattern from my mother. An honourable mention at the Sidney Fine Art Show.

An experiment in self portaiture using a pointillist image. Some unresolved issues related to glazing of all the holes used to create the image remain.

17” x 9” Currently for sale at the Avenue Gallery in Victoria BC. Part of series of vessels from an imagined alterate history where magic and alchemy prevailed.

A piece from the “alternate” history series. Sold at the Avenue Gallery

Sold at the Avenue Gallery

Sold at the Avenue Gallery. A certain gravitational influence around the waistline…

Was shown at the juried Sooke Fine Arts Show 2019.

Slab construction with imprinted wind related images and words on each facet of the octagonal classical jar shape. A stylized compass rose with the 8 directional winds embellishes the lid. Fired to cone 6 in my electric kiln. Designed to be the maximum size to fit in my kiln. 24” tall x 22” diameter. Sold at the Avenue Gallery in Victoria BC

I seldom have to stand on a step stool to throw on the potter’s wheel!

A photograph taken to illustrate the scale of the piece using the 6’ tall artist as comparison. As you can imagine it was not always easy to work on!

First pot in the series with the addition of a base, used as a large garden planter

Fire imagery along with imprinted words related to fire and inflammatory speech. Collection of the artist.

A large jar in the octagonal series relating to the ocean and the treasures there contained. 8 Salmon images in low relief as design. The jar is available currently at the Avenue Gallery in Oak Bay, Victoria BC.

24 “ stoneware fired to cone 6 in oxidation. Sold at the 2018 LOOK show in Victoria

20” + bowl custom created for Carolyn Houg as a trade for one of her wonderful sculptural figures.

25# bowl, easy to throw and everything went well! Not always the case with these big boys.

A bowl from the imaginary history series, used in some mystical ceremony full of mysticism and magic.

Large bowl thrown with extremely groggy clay which left little pinpricks of light in the black field reminiscent of a star clustered sky —-at the beginning of time—.Juried into and sold at the Sooke Fine Arts Show.

Thrown to 28” diameter from 24# of stoneware clay. Semi-matt black and gold glazes. A custom commission to go with a black and red colour scheme for a dining room.

22” x 7” stoneware bowl. Variegated blue with black interior middle. Awarded “Best 3D” at Art Victoria Now in 2018. Sold at the Avenue Gallery in Victoria.

22” x 5” stoneware bowl glazed with a black breaking white glaze with subtle blue flashing in the interior. Multiple patterns of interior and exterior texture called chattering, nicely highlighted by the glazes. Entered in the Studio Artists show at the Arts Centre at Cedar Hill. Sold.

Very wide and light in weight. Aegean flat blue with black and gold decorative mark. For sale $300.

A large chattered bowl featuring an iron saturated red glaze, very red in the interior, grading to greeny brown. Slow cooled oxidation fired to cone 6. For sale $250.

A bowl for my friend Michael and his wife. Very translucent and smooth.

A very large altered bowl, glazed with multi layers and ash glaze in homage to volcanic and geologic forces. Sold at the Sooke Fine Arts Show.

Translucent porcelain bowl. Multi glazed with water blue copper glaze in oxidation at cone 6.

A large bowl 21” x 5” thrown on the potters wheel. The interior features different patterns of “chattering” done during the throwing process. Highlighted with a new satin-black, breaking white, glaze. Blue highlights in the centre portion.

Shown at the Sooke Fine Arts Show in 2017. An illustration of the delicate interconnectedness of nature, this sculpture with its 10 leaping salmon and 10 struts on a Guatamalan marble base is a tensegrity. There are no rigid connection between the members in this piece, it is held in stasis by the tension on the supporting cables. If one of the connections fails the entire structure becomes unstable, much like our finely balanced world. Currently displayed in the offices of Jawl Properties Ltd. $3500.

Matter coalescing in the cauldron at the center of the swirling nucleus of the nascent universe. Shown at the Sooke Fine Arts Show 2016. Collection of the artist. For sale $600.

A donation to the Souper Bowls of Hope fundraiser.

Sold at the Sooke Fine Arts Show.

An ancient mesoamerican design ruined as a serious object forever by Bob Kingsmill who thought of these as a suitable vessel for substantial amounts of chicken wings!

sculptural menorah form, to be glazed a bronzy gold. Technically challenging due shapes relaxing in the firing. A work in progress.

A challenging textured slab built creation. This is done with an innovative clay folding technique to minimize disruptions to the texture at the joints. About 18” tall by 9” diameter.