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I fell in love with clay in kindergarten. I still find it irresistible. It talks to my senses. As a beginning potter making pinch pots I felt its magic and strength – and even now after 16 years of working professionally with clay I’m still fascinated by it. I founded Life Forms Pottery, now Bosetti Art Tile, in 1990. When I started as a professional potter I quickly realized I wasn’t a thrower or a glazer of pots. I can throw well, but I’m not a great designer of round forms. My work quickly gravitated to clean simple forms that became more and more decorative over time, until I dropped the three dimensional form, and starting working flat. The word “pottery” and “potter” no longer felt authentic, so I changed the name to Bosetti Art Tile to describe what I do now.
I feel my work celebrates the sensual, spiritual, and celestial. My current subject matter springs from three sources; the human form, art nouveau, and my mother’s death and her love of the Catholic Church. In each piece, I try to convey the enchantment of the universe and that of faith. My representations of the human form and elements of nature are sometimes playful and irreverent and sometimes contemplative.
I studied sculpture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1982. While in college, my work was featured in the Juried Senior Art Show and I had a one-person show at the Pratt Sculpture Gallery. I’ve also demonstrated throwing at the American Crafts Museum with Elisabeth Woody. Before opening my own studio I worked at the Jack D. Wolfe ceramic supply company, slip casting for artist Nina Yankowitz; and with architectural facades at MJM Studios in New Jersey. In 1988 I took a year and half off and sailed a gaff-rigged schooner from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas, then Beaufort, North Carolina, thereby officially finishing my life as a New Yorker and starting a new phase as an artist in North Carolina. I now reside in Raleigh.
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