Growing up amid the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains in south central Colorado was the greatest gift I can imagine.  It has shaped my view of the world and my place in it ever since.

          I came to glass blowing later in life.  It was my second metamorphosis after college and a degree in biology and years in the sciences...living in Central New York and California.  I have been a glassblower for 12 years and learned glass techniques from Paul Trautman, Boyd Sugiki, Kisao Iburi and Lucio Bubacco in classes and workshops.  I've learned a lot of life's lessons from the glass itself and am still learning...

• Contemporary Glass: Color, Light and Form. Ray Leier, Jan Peters and Kevin Wallace. 2001.


• Object Lessons:  Beauty and Meaning in Art.  2001.


• Collectible Beads, A Universal Aesthetic. Robert Liu. 1995.


• Contemporary Lampworking, A Practical Guide to Shaping Glass in the Flame.  Bandhu Scott Dunham.  1995.


• Animal Vessels selected for the cover of the 1997 Guild Handbook.


• Phyllis Clarke by Rober Liu.  Collectibles section of Ornament Magazine, Vol. 19 No. 4, Summer 1996.


• Lampworking on the Mountain Top, An Interview with Phyllis Clarke, by Murray Bloom.  Glassline, Vol. 11, No. 1.