Somewhere between Scientist and Hedgewitch…

…my art is a testament to carving out one's own space.

I came to art the way most feral children come to anything useful — out of necessity. It started as an escape hatch and became something stranger and more permanent: the primary tool by which I shape my existence. Every piece I make carries that original charge. This work is for people who want something untethered — from dogma, from easy answers, from the comfortable lie that wonder requires you to stop thinking.

I have been collecting evidence of the world's strangeness since I was old enough to stuff my pockets. Dead birds, skulls, shells, seed pods, beetle casings— the cabinet of curiosities that became my studio. My degrees are in botany and fine art, which sounds like an odd combination until you realize they're the same obsession: close observation, structural logic, the way living things are built. That same instinct drives my glaze formulations, where the chemistry of a cone-6 firing turns out to be just as fascinating to me as anything I've ever drawn.

For over 30 years that curiosity has taken commercial shape — children's books, botanical calendars, editorial work, packaging — but it has always been in service of the same underlying project: making the natural world impossible to dismiss. Science and myth aren't opponents in my practice. They share the same skeleton.

In recent years, that project has moved increasingly into three dimensions. I hand-build ceramic vessels, talismanic objects, and ceremonial forms — pieces that carry impressed sigils, encoded imagery, and forms that reward close inspection. These aren't decorative objects. They're artifacts from a mythology still being written, one firing at a time.

And because making things in silence eventually drives me to making things loudly, I also play bass and keyboards in The Weathercocks, a rock trio formed with fellow artist-musician, Mark Zug, and drummer, Eric Winter. We write original songs. We perform. It turns out re-enchantment sounds pretty good at high volume.

Thank you always for your support and generous enthusiasm for my art.

~K2