BA in art history. Drawing, painting, sculpture and ceramics classes. Produced Raku ceramics with a focus on the tea pot and teapot inspired sculpture in a series called 'Dream Boxes' which took it's thematic structure from Japanese wraping art.In the last few years moved from ceramics to figurative sculpture with a focus on the female figure. The softness of the figure lines are set against an architectural structure made of steel to form a sculptural environment. recent shows:RECENT SHOWS New Leaf Gallery - Focus on the Figure also Wind and Water, Berkeley, California Langman Gallery - A Spot of Tea, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Los Angeles Country Museum - Figurative sculptures, Los Angeles, California Ceramics and Beyond Show - Figurative sculpture, New Leaf Gallery, Berkeley, California Figurative Work Clay & Glass - Gallery Alexander, La Jolla, California COLLECTIONS Cumm Collection - Los Angeles, California Leslie Ceramics Collection - Berkeley, California Antonio Prieto Collection - Mills College, Oakland, California John Denver collection - Los Angeles, California Embassy of Luxembourg - Tokyo, Japan Museum Collection - Brunnenburg, Italy Gwen Laurie Smits Collection - Los Angeles, California Other private collections throughout the US, and Europe AWARDS “The Clay Show” - Diablo Valley College purchase award “California Clay” - Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek purchase “Art of Clay & Glass” - Marin Community College, Kentfield “Art Quest” Merit Award Association of San Francisco Potters & Glassblowers Award COMMISSIONS Charles Eisen & Associates - Suspended sculpture of three divers, Denver, CO D.C. Douglas Interiors - 5’ high sculpture, Danville, California Sheraton Palace Hotel - Interior decor environment, San Francisco Van Agtmael Interiors - sculpture for lobby of Emerging Markets Investments, Bethesda, Maryland Sushi-ko Restaurant - Washington, D.C. PUBLICATIONS 500 Teapots - Lark Books, New York 2002 The Artful Teapot - Garth Clark, Watson Guptill Publications Object Lessons - Guild Publishing 2001 More Than Clay - The Toki Collection of Ceramics 1998 Make It In Clay - Charlotte F. Speight & John Toki, Mayfield Publishing 1997 The Best of Pottery - by Jonathan Fairbanks & Angela Fina, Rockport Publishers Contemporary Crafts for the Home - by Bill Kraus, Kraus Sikes Publishers New York Times - Feb 1991, Nov 1989, Sept 1989, Dec 1984 Ceramics Monthly - Dec 1990, Sept 1989, Oct 1986, Sept 1984 House Beautiful, Home Magazine, International Entertaining Magazine, Home and Garden, Los Angles Times, Washington Post, Oakland Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine feature