So happy to be invited by Ceramics Monthly to write an article on my studio and studio practice! The “Studio Visit” section of the Ceramics Monthly has always been a favorite of mine. Each month when I receive my issue of the magazine one of the first articles I read is the Studio Visit.

There has been a bit of a change in the past couple of years with e-commerce since Amazon has taken over the online shopping market. Free shipping is something that many shoppers are getting used to… but do we ever question this? Being the ever so practical person that I am, I have always questioned it. I always thought, well obviously they are raising the price in order to give free shipping.

Learning pottery at the wheel can be really difficult. It takes good eye hand coordination and lots of patience. Students learning pottery these days have plenty of information at their finger tips through Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. When I was learning back in the 1980’s we had books.