About

I’m an Iranian-American potter, born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. Introduced to ceramics as a kid, in a small after-school art class with my younger brother, I started making sculptures and pinch pots for my family members each week. I returned to clay periodically over the years, layered between explorations in other mediums (painting, charcoal, jewelry-making, crochet, bookbinding, woodworking). In college, I took my first long-term wheel throwing class with a friend. Immediately hooked, I spent all my free time at the wheel trying to improve.

I began working as a studio tech so I could continue to learn, and eventually began teaching as well.

I first exhibited my own work and delivered an artist’s talk at the Clay Corner Gallery in the summer of 2024, following the completion of their residency program. Since then, I’ve been learning from Damian Grava at the Westwood Art Studio, focused on developing my current body of work, and teaching wheel classes at several studios around Seattle.

Artist’s Statement

Fascinated by the material qualities of clay and earth, I make functional ceramic pieces that preserve the movement of the potter’s wheel within the final form. The textures surfaces on my work are created as the pot turns, by raking through thick colored slips, and marking deep grooves into the clay walls. Just as much as I value the loose expressiveness of these forms, I also care about the structure of function and utility that make a piece truly enjoyable to use. Throwing pots that are balanced in this way allow me to relax into the creative act without sacrificing the desire for purpose in my art.