My love for pottery started as a young girl, watching my grandmother create birds, their delicate nests, and other small creatures from clay. Her mother, a Native American of the Shawnee Cherokee Nation, taught her a love for art and nature, and in turn, she instilled in me a love for many forms of art, including music, sculpting , carving, and pottery. I studied pottery and art while in college in Southern California and became an established potter and sculptor, displaying and selling my wares. In the early eighties I discovered a talent for interior design, became certified, and started...more