I make ceramic tableware and homewares from my garden studio. I seek balance from the rush of modern life in the everyday rituals of eating and drinking. These rituals are enhanced by the vessels we use; by what we see, what we pass around, what we hold and touch.
In creating my work I am seeking to create a connection to the environment in which I live, either by using local materials, such as wood ash or wild clay in slips and glazes, or through the marks I make on each piece. I both throw and hand build pieces using moulds and the process of ‘kurinuki’ carving from one piece of clay.
I enjoy the degraded surfaces of beached wood and rusted metal, in addition to the urban landscape marked with graffiti and the marks of industry.
I started working with clay in 2013, seeking a creative outlet, I fell wholeheartedly in love with the medium. Devouring the ceramic world during every waking moment I started to work with clay full time in January 2020.
Overlooked by the local Church, I work from my garden studio using stoneware clay which is fired in my electric kiln.