I have been sitting with this news for a while now, barely knowing how to put it into words — but here it is: in August 2025, my Toxic collection won first prize at the international Ceramics in Love exhibition in Castellamonte, Italy. It all started quietly, as the best

It was 2021. Early in the year, I successfully completed testing and developed my first glaze truly worth sharing. It was a very dry matte surface glaze — intensely blue when applied thick, shifting to teal when thin. I began throwing forms specifically for this glaze, experimenting with spray application