Debra's free spirit is expressed in her sensuous and whimsical ceramics. She has found a wonderful balance of feminine and masculine images.

Her passport names her a "citizen of the world". Her life and her art have taken her in many directions, and as far away as Thailand where her first son, Tao, was born. She has shared a cave with a monkey in the canary islands and has brought life to an abandoned Renaissance castle in Italy, where her second son Bartolomeo was born. She's hiked the peaks of the world, taught turkeys to fly in Brittany and hitchhiked across North Africa in a horse cart when she was fifteen years old.

She's taken many inner excursions as well, acting in Italian, French, Spanish and English movies. These films were made across several continents and involved such talents as Marcel Carne, Peter O'Toole, Otto Preminger, Mickey Rooney and Peter Patzak.

Her current adventure has been the creation of a new home in Los Angeles which embodies her view of a tropical oasis. One is greeted by waterfalls, a pyramid and the symbol of eternal well-being. A theme in her garden is of an ancient riverbed, each bend in the path brings a new surprise with scent gardens, flowers and fountains made of her tiles.

Of her teapots she says, "I find the limitation of the teapot very freeing. Uninhibited expression in it's freest form is an accumulation of my life experience. I'm sensitive to my surroundings and all the abundance of colors and textures in nature. In nature the divine is present, I guess you could call me a pantheist. With my art I've tried to communicate this joy. I'm drawn to opposites, my pots are both regal yet whimsical, flamboyant yet childish. I hope they take you to far away places, to dreamy places, infantile places, elegant places and silly places."

Of her dinnerware she says, "Each piece is organic and original. Perfection lies in their imperfection, as imperfection is the wound that lets God in."

Debra has been busy at work in her new pottery studio, spinning together a magically enchanting series of elegantly crafted, fairy tale teapots, cups and saucers and plates of all kinds. With elf-like precision, the spritey wizardess alchemically sculpts sensual organic forms out of raw mineral earth, masterfully blending the imaginative with the functional. Her deliciously sculpted teapots look almost good enough to eat.

Like treasures from a faraway world, or artifacts plucked out of a dreamtime vision, Debra's mystical work delightfully enchants the spirit. Her teapots appear almost biological, alive, growing, and botanically blooming before one's eyes. The pieces have an unmistakable archetypal presence to them, and one suspects that there may be a genie or a spirit residing inside each one. With mythological meaning and a silly kind of sophistication, they carry one back to the wonder-filled days of childhood.