Path and Inspiration
I first discovered clay over forty-five years ago and was instantly captivated. Although life led me along a different path, I returned to that early love during lockdown in 2020, creating a small studio at the bottom of my garden — a sanctuary that has become central to my daily life. My work draws on a lifetime of absorbing art: from prehistoric cave paintings to North African vessels, Greek sculpture and Egyptian wall painting. Each morning still begins with a new idea waiting to take form.Process and Practice
Each piece is hand-built mostly in stoneware fired in an electric kiln, using slab construction, pinching, and both flat and rounded coils. I work intuitively, developing surfaces through underglazes and oxides, and also layered glaze application, to achieve depth, texture and variation.
