Dolph's current focus is on high and low temperature lichen glazes, which are applied to the organic forms she is throwing and altering. The artist gets inspiration from her long daily walks along the coast and forests of Galiano Island. These ideas are seen in the use of textures and organic forms on the surfaces of the ceramics themselves.

"Pots express my understanding of the world, of how I see the inside world, the outside world. The more I know my place in these two worlds, the more awareness I am able to bring to the making of pots. There is an emptiness in a pot that will hold anything. Empty, it recieves and fills up with who I am. The more spacious and open on the inside, the more beautiful on the outside."

Dolph obtained a BS in Art Education from New York State University College in 1971. After graduating, she taught at the Adirondack Center for the Arts and operated a gallery in upstate New York. In 1974 she immigrated to Canada and homesteaded in the B.C. Rockies, where she taught and ran a clay studio, making salt/wood fired pottery. In 1989 she moved to Galiano Island, where her current studio and open-air gallery were created.

In 1996-97 Dolph studied and gave Raku workshops in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. In the spring of 1998 she started visiting Japan annually and spends about a third of the year there where sh makes pots and meditates in a Zen Buddhist temple. Her work is currently represented in galleries in Japan, Texas, British Columbia, Washington, and Ontario. This exhibition gives the viewer the rare opportunity to view highly unusual, original international work.