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Prior to my printmaking venture, I was a pottery for many years. My focus in pottery was on carving and drawing on the surface of my pots through colored slips, a process called sgrafitto. In 2018 I received a scholarship to Penland School of Craft for a woodblock printmaking class taught by Master Printmaker Keijo Shinohara. This experience shifted my focus away from carving pots to carving woodblocks for printmaking. I’ve participated in exhibits with the Asheville Printmakers and the Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild. In 2022 I re-juried into the Southern Highland Craft Guild in printmaking.
I grew up in Reidsville, North Carolina, earned my degree in Art at UNC-Greensboro, then studied pottery with Charles Counts in Rising Fawn, GA. Since that time I have lived in WV, serving as an artist-in-residence for Greenbrier County, and in Fredericksburg, VA, where I taught for the Stafford County schools and maintained a pottery shop in the downtown historic district. In 1988 I moved to Florida where I met my husband, John Richards. Together we owned and operated the Temple of Great Art, No Spitting in St. Augustine. In 2003 we moved to Burnsville, NC where we established the Yummy Mud Puddle studios and vacation house.