I work in many mediums, but my work with clay is the most satisfying. The more I can get my hands involved, the happier I am (I even talk with my hands). The involved processes of sculpture require many steps of problem solving along the way and I must admit that I often enjoy the path to the end more than the product I find there. In clay, I also find the potential for playfulness, the surprise, the juxtaposition of ideas that can take on a life of their own as real objects.

Frogs are indicators of our environmental health just as art and humor are indicators of our creative and emotional health. I feel art should bring a humorous perspective to life and so my frogs and other critters are full of surprises, just like people.

Frogs are some of nature's most vulnerable/at risk creatures and as such are metaphors for the fragile, vulnerable, creative part in all people. I like to make comments on people situations through the vulnerable aspect of my creatures. I usually create in response to emotional content in personal situations such as motherhood, city bureaucracy (I'm on the Novato Civic Art Commission), the foibles of other artists or parents, or just the different personalities/defense mechanisms of various people I know or meet. Everything is interconnected.