Path and Inspiration
I’m an artist-ceramicist working in South London, shaped as much by the rural life of the Vale of Evesham - where I grew up - as by four decades of life as a Londoner.My entry-point to studying art in the 1980s was the GLC\\\\\\\'s support of cheap, high-quality evening classes at Morley, City Lit and Peckham colleges. In my late twenties I studied sculpture and ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art.Process and Practice
As an artist I’m drawn to the accidental and undesigned. Like nature, my work follows patterns with variation: guided, but allowed to collapse, run, drip, and retain flaws. I’m inspired by the idea of “born not made.”I explore forms that carry both craft and political and conceptual concerns - lidded vessels evoke domestic memory and secrecy, “strawberry-field” jars hold nostalgia and cultural loss, and handaxe forms connect us to ancestral making and egalitarian ideals.
