Nature, literature and art & craft, from antiquity to the present day, are the driving forces behind my ceramics. I find something of significance and allow the emerging connections to thread their way into the conscious area of making, allowing intuition, spontaneity and ability to create in equal measure. Using functionality as a boundary within which to create, I use a variety of 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 from land, art and culture.
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.
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