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View fullsize This is one of the pieces I’ll be showing at @collectartfair later this week with the fabulous @countyhallpottery 

I’ll be there all Wednesday, and Friday morning (possibly other times too) so please come and say hello 

Room E11: East W
View fullsize Work all packed up and delivered to @countyhallpottery ready for COLLECT 2026 next week. 

NEST, detail, porcelain, bone china and stoneware clays with multiple layers of hand painted glaze and found object
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Photo: @sylvaindeleuphotographer 
@coll
View fullsize COLLECT 2026

I’m excited and honoured to have been selected by @countyhallpottery for their debut appearance at 
COLLECT: the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design hosted annually by the @craftscouncil at @somersetho
View fullsize Porcelain fragments. . 

Without a studio while a new one is being built, I have packed every away. 
Fragile porcelain fragments are stored in these wooden brick moulds

#ceramics #fragments #plantlife #curating
View fullsize Various photos document the last few days in my current studio. 
Mixed results from last firing. . .
1-4: Test. Porcelain with London clay collected from a building site in Tottenham, thanks to @goldenearthstudio.
Fired  to 1260c I’m very surpr
View fullsize Making is paused, and it’s the last glazing day/firing this week before my studio of 15 years (a garden shed with fireproof board, and rotting roof) is dismantled and a proper studio is built in its place. I can’t wait to have insulation
View fullsize TESTS: leave, petals, twigs

#ceramics #glazes #nature #regeneration
View fullsize Porcelain painted SILVER BIRCH (Betula Pendula). Known as a ‘Pioneer Tree.’

A resilient, self seeding species that quickly colonises barren wasteland. 
Often used to disguise and regenerate landscape scarred by industry and human activit
 
 

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