Path and Inspiration
After a career in performance arts at higher education, I now concentrate on developing some drama or action with clay.My work still focuses on social interaction and human movement but now the medium is porcelain, mostly wheel-thrown vessels. These vessels have naked porcelain exteriors, either polished or carved. I am fascinated by the raw material of porcelain and celebrate it by allowing its visual and tactile qualities to be the focus on the exterior of my work.Process and Practice
Many of the vessels have carved, scarred naked exteriors. This carving marks, shapes and reshapes the clay body - a metaphor for life where experiences, memories, encounters, relationships mark and shape us. Normally the only colour or decoration, via glaze, metals, oxides and glass, appears on the interior of the vessels, at the ‘heart’ of them.
Important to all my work is the extremes of surface. When polished, it is silky smooth to the touch. When carved, it offers a ridged, rough terrain.
