Snow Laden

Winter 2025-26 (ongoing)

This series grew out of a long-held fascination with winter branches—their tangle of lines, the way snow gathers and clings to them, softening some edges while heightening others. The landscape becomes a study in abundance: thousands of crossing marks revealed where leaves once hid them, each limb drawing its own path through space. I wanted to capture that density.

For the orbs, I imagined future plant partners weaving themselves through the form, growing into the piece as much as around it. Their carved openings and branching pathways echo the painted lines beneath them, creating a conversation between interior and exterior, surface and structure. To deepen that sense of organic complexity, I used water etching to build layers of subtle texture, the kind that doesn’t announce itself immediately but shifts as the light moves across the piece.

The vases follow the same winter logic but through a slightly different approach. After carving and etching, I built twig-like forms back into the surface, blurring the boundaries between what is drawn, what is carved, and what is built.

A series of bonsai/succulent pots and vases in Black Mountain and Panomora clay (slab mixed), fired to Cone 10, with slip and white underglaze.