I have been passionate about working with clay for some eighteen years now. I began by taking courses with some of Ottawa's top potters and soon set up my own studio at home doing vases, small and large cups, teapots and other functional pots. I have always enjoyed mixing my own coloured glazes in part because of my background – I have a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, where I was born. For me, preparing glazes and firing my pieces is a natural extension of a career spent in the lab.

At the present time, however, I have been involved in a different venue rather than doing functional pottery. I am making clay sculptures to express my love and admiration for nature, and trees are my favorite beauties. As the BBC documentary "Planet Earth" perfectly expresses it on our biological relationship to trees: "if they didn’t live here, neither would we." My clay forms of trees represent my own small story contributing to the call of many others about the importance to see, cherish, and defend these so often overlooked and forgotten beautiful organisms.

As a member of the Ottawa Guild of Potters, I attend workshops and the Guild's biannual sales in April and November.

At the Annual Juried Exhibition at the April 2011 Guild Sale, I have been awarded by the Prize for the Best of Expression for my sculptures of several birch trees. Another statue of one of my birch trees was selected for the juried exhibition Selections 2011 at the Shenkman Center, organized by Arts Ottawa East, September 29- October 25, 2011.

Thank you for your interest in looking bellow at my work.

	View some of my pieces, which are periodically available at a sale run by the Ottawa Guild of Potters.
	For the interested reader, here is some general information concerning pottery.
	External links to some websites of interest.