My hens are my studio assistants! These pieces are handformed using no other tools but my fingers and palms. Once completed, they are “seeded” with chicken scratch in the right places and offered to the girls who gleefully peck away, leaving their incredible marks all over the works. Sometimes they take a beakful of clay, too. I gently re-shape each piece, smoothing and filling in any holes, trying to leave it mostly as they did. The works are fully glazed using the colors of my birds feathers, eyes and eggs as inspiration.