My work is a reflection on nature. It is deeply connected to the east anglian landscape and the places i have spent time, including a childhood roaming the highlands and moors of scotland.

It is a reflection on nature through experience, bound by human relationship to land, water & sky and a facination of form, colour and pattern. 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 skill 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, constantly building new connections to my immediate environment.

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.