Denise’s life has always been surrounded by some sort of artistic venture. Her grandparents were art directors at Camp Winaukee for 27 years and her father ran his own sign business from home. Denise learned a great deal from them, participating as a child in helping her grandparents at camp and as a teenager in the sign studio. As an adult, Denise returned to college and gained her degree in art education, teaching in Ashland for six years before returning home to pursue her own artistic endeavors.

Though Denise’s experiences at Plymouth State College exposed her to all media, her current work is focused in clay. Natural elements pressed into clay along with paw prints from one of her six cats can be seen in her plates, vases, bowls and other work. Clay whistles in the shapes of various animals and garden turtles are some of the whimsical items Denise forms from clay.

Denise’s home studio is located in Moultonboro, New Hampshire near the Ossipee Mountains with plenty of surrounding woods in which to search for natural inspiration.