I graduated from San Jose State University in California in 1976 with a degree in ceramics and weaving. When I began working as a U.S. Forest Service fire look-out in Big Sur in 1979, I started making baskets with the native Coulter Pine needles because that was the material that was most accessible. The vessels that I created were a reflection of the earth, the sky and the mountains where I lived in the summer. My baskets became a kind of marriage of my two loves - clay and fiber.
For the past thirty years I have worked exclusively with pine needles because they are wonderfully unpretentious. I love that one can take something as mundane as a pine needle and create something that celebrates its beauty and its strength.
Photograph by Keith Wyner
Education:
San Jose State University BA 1976
San Jose State University MLS 1993
2011 Miasa - Mendocino Art Exchange Matstumoto and Omachi, Japan
2010 "More Than Fiber" Best of Show Goggle Works Center for the Arts
Reading, Penn.
2009 "Omachi and Mendocino" Gallery Iizura and Matsumoto Museum, Japan
"Inspired By Nature" Mendocino, CA.
2008 "TEXTiles" group show Mendocino, CA.
2007 "Paths and Circles" Mendocino Art Center Mendocino, CA.
2006 "Northcoast Gallery Annual Friends Show" Fort Bragg, CA.
1992 Post Ranch Gallery Big Sur, CA.
1987 "The Basketry Link" Cartwright Street Gallery Vancouver, B.C.
1986 "The Basketry Link Traveling Exhibition" Mendocino Art Center
Mendocino, Ca.
1985 Handworks Gallery Carmel, CA.
1984 "Kansas - Paraguay Cultural Exchange Exhibition" (Special Award)
Ascension, Paraguay
1982 "Marietta College Craft National" Marietta, Ohio
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