ABOUT

I’m a London based artist specialising in ceramics.

A Selected Member of the Crafts Potter Association and Contemporary Applied Arts; and an alumni of the Crafts Council Hothouse programme.  Making for over 40 years, I trained on the esteemed City Lit Diploma course, beginning my professional career in 2012. I have an honours degree in History of Design and my first career was at the BBC producing programmes.

Known for hand-built stoneware vessels with a focus on surface decoration, I have recently been experimenting with new approaches to making and materials. While themes of place, geology, fragility and resilience remain a constant. 

STATEMENT
New work seeks to capture the fragility, resilience and transient quality of Orford Ness, a remote desert-like shingle spit on the fast eroding Suffolk Coast. The site of an abandoned MoD secret base used for experiments and bomb testing. It is now a place of wildness, nature conservation and a sanctuary for birdlife.

This Jarman-esque wasteland is a strange mix of beauty and desolation, dotted with concrete and corrugated iron buildings in a state of curated decay. Derelict structures bear silent witness to many human stories as they are slowly recolonised by nature.

MAKING

Hand built forms are constructed with stoneware and some local clays. Texture and surface echo rusted, eroded, lichen covered structures, crumbling concrete and bricks. This contrasts with the purity of porcelain and bone china, used to create nest and eggshell forms, and fragments from the natural world.

Sometimes work is juxtaposed with found objects, collected over many years along the Suffolk Coast.