My work is a reflection on nature through experience, bound by human relationship to land and water. I play with detail and variation and allow inspiration to come from many sources. Once I find something of significance I allow the emerging connections to thread their way into the conscious area of making, allowing intuition, spontaneity and curiosity for the material to create in equal measure.

Living in the woods and by the sea has been inspirational. Finding daily details among the trees, in the changing seasons, has become a meditation on change & time.

Trees are my constant teacher in growth, emergence and becoming. Nothing in a forest is finished. A seed splits, a shoot rises, a trunk thickens ring by ring, and bark weathers over years.

Water is the other great maker. Over centuries it moves through the landscape, carving rock, wearing down edges and opening hollows. I look for that same slow sculpting in my work.

Using functionality as a boundary within which to focus, I use various techniques to enhance and accentuate the form, leading the eye around the body, sometimes manipulating the clay to warp and distort, sometimes taking a classical shape and playing with the many variations it contains. Each piece is unique.

I make in cycles and am inspired by time away from the studio where I can gather new ideas.

I use a mixture of wheel thrown and handbuilding techniques, mixing clays to achieve different surface colour and texture, then glazing and firing to stoneware temperatures.

The work is twice-fired in an electric kiln.

I live in North Norfolk, UK with my family. I graduated from Chelsea Art College in 2006 with a BA (Hons) in Spatial Design. I received pottery training at Morley, Kensington & Chelsea under Akiko Hirai and City Lit.