I had held an affinity for clay and the wheel for a very long time before properly interacting with the medium. It wasn’t until the end of 2018 that I started taking my first pottery lessons in the evenings after work. At the time, I was teaching preschool in Manhattan and my time in the studio after work quickly became a staple in my life. Through the next year and a half I continued going into the pottery studio as much as I could, which eventually collided with March of 2020. The inspiration and drive to pivot and focus my professional career on my art full time came from my partner, Kristy, and without her I would not have had the confidence to have taken this meaningful leap of faith. Together, we decided to move from New York to California and begin new professional careers in tandem.
The notion behind the name Fifth Season Studio comes from my love and admiration of nature. We live by four inspiring, complicated and vital seasons in our temporal world. As humans, I feel that we spend an emotional season —a fifth season— honoring, digesting and fathoming that which the world unfolds for us each year. Our fifth season is an effort at touching something intangible— an echo of what constantly surrounds us. I like to think of my artwork is part of that echo. Aesthetics and textures that respect, pay homage and connect to nature while exploring the marriage between natural materials and man-made tools.
