I was trained in design, but illustration and painting came more naturally to me from the beginning, and I would love to get back into sculpting. I found there was a definite correlation between the skills I used in sketching on paper and the ones I used in finding shapes in the clay. I love to draw from things I’m looking at around me. My dog and items around my home frequently appear in my work. I spent a lot of time growing up in Western NC, so the mountains and the natural world have also been an area of focus.