Artist Statement Christine is a ceramic artist. Her work emerges at the intersection of the gestural, the emotive, and the crafted. With an aesthetic that embraces impermanence and imperfection, fused with rigorous and poetic modernity, rooted in the intrinsic properties of clay and process. Through this synthesis, she explores a sense of connectedness between humanity and the natural world, revealing a co-existential equilibrium in which diverse entities exist in dynamic harmony.
Christine’s work is animated by vibrant porcelain slips, expressive brushwork, and intricate carving. GESTURAL: Surfaces are built through an interplay of intention and intuition, allowing marks to register movement, touch, and pause. EMOTIVE: These layered surfaces—time-worn, weathered, fractured, eroded, smooth and tactile—serve as metaphors for the cyclical nature of time and natural forces. Her sculptures embody both motion and stillness, inviting quiet contemplation of the shared terrain between human experience and the natural environment. Textures, forms, and color reflect states of imperfection, healing, growth, decay, and transformation.
Artist Process Christine works across wheel-thrown, altered, and hand-built processes. CRAFTED: She builds layered surfaces using slips, stains, oxides, and glazes through mono-printing, mark-making with intricate carving and expressive brushwork, She creates with close attention to material nuance, process, and detail. Her work is fired in electric (oxidation) and gas (soda and reduction) kilns, ranging from mid-range cone 6 (2232°F) to high-fire cone 10 (2381°F). Selected works incorporating gold luster overglaze undergo additional firings at cone 018 (1283°F) to achieve their final finish.
Artist Bio Born in Singapore and based in Bethesda, Maryland, Christine holds degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture from the National University of Singapore. Her engagement with traditional pottery and modern ceramics began while working as an architect in Tokyo, and she made her first pinched pot in a small studio in Bangkok 16 years ago. She is currently an instructor at Glen Echo Pottery and serves as Gallery Director of the Glen Echo Pottery Gallery. Christine is a member of the Washington Ceramic Guild and Scope Gallery at the Torpedo Art Center. She is currently pursuing a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Ceramics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Awards
2025 First Place in Ceramics Award 35th Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition Thank you distinguished panel of jurors: Michael Janis, Co-Director of the Washington Glass School & Studio, blends his architectural expertise with a disciplined approach to glass art, managing site-specific and public art commissions since 2005. Robert Devers is an artist with a multi-faceted practice that includes ceramics, sculpture, painting, and photography. He is currently the Coordinator for the Center for Craft Studies at VisArts in Rockville, MD. Mary Higgins is an independent curator and consults with working artists on the development of their marketing and digital media presence through her consultancy, Distinct Studios.
2022 Ceramics Award Visual Arts Center of Richmond 58th Annual Craft + Design Show Thank you distinguished panel of jurors: Alexis Assam (VMFA’s Regenia A. Perry Assistant Curator of Global Contemporary Art), Dr Carmenita Higginbotham (Dean of the VCU School of Fine Arts) and Dr Karen Sherry (VMHC’s Museum Collections Curator).
2023 Washington Ceramic Guild Excellence in Ceramic Award 34th Creative Crafts Council Biennial Exhibition Thank you distinguished panel of jurors: Jaimianne Jacobin (Executive Director of the James Renwick Alliance for Craft, Executive Officer for the Creative Crafts Council, Executive Director of the Shenandoah Arts Council, and owner of The Gray Gallery) Lynda Smith-Bugge (Wood artist, Project Coordinator at the Zenith Community Arts Foundation) April Wood (Metalsmith, sculptor, and jeweler. Co-founder of the community arts education space the Baltimore Jewelry Center)
