My ceramics emerge from a deep engagement with the natural world. I am drawn to the wild, untamed places that reconnect us to the land and to ourselves. Drawing on personal experience, stories and art from antiquity to the present day, I hope to capture a sense of beauty and the ritual aspects of the everyday. I wish to uncover the subtle messages of flora, rock, water, sky, and light, expressing their essence through the medium of glazed ceramics.
My use of the materials is constantly evolving as I regularly reimagine and rework my designs. I have a strong inclination to continually experiment, relishing opportunities to explore new avenues of expression through clay and challenge myself to push into new territory.
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 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.
