ceramics
Practice
I am essentially a clay enthusiast and enjoy exploring the possibilities of clay, from digging it straight out of the ground to working with both earthenware and stoneware clays and paper clay. I do not see myself as a 'potter' or a 'sculptor' but as a 'maker'. I make objects which are usually one-offs and my interests are with the processes of creating ceramics which inform the workshops I run or community artworks I facilitate.
Current Work
I enjoy the expressive, responsive immediacy of clay hand-building in my vessels, tiles and figurative work inspired by Kurinuki, and my interest in the entropic processes that form our urban and natural landscapes. Community art, urban sketching, and drawing people, all inform my playful approach to my various artworks both figurative and abstract.
Alongside my ceramic practice I draw and paint. I am fascinated by different ways of responding to subjects both figurative and landscape through the processes of drawing and I have more recently applied observation and gesteral drawing into my claywork. I have been creating tiles with coloured slips and glazes which are a bridge between sculpture and painting (as are my abstract pots).
Ceramic, clay, art is a life long journey of discovery, and I feel very privilidged to be able to continue creating and sharing with others through workshops the love of making. I work from a home studio near Exeter Devon
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Stoneware
I use the scarva Earthstone Stoneware clays for work in the community working with texture, imprinting and coloured with underglazes and clear transparent glaze. These techniques work for mosaic elements or tiles or model making. I am currently exploring making sculptural objects in my own work using these techniques shifting away from Raku as this is a very demanding process.
‘Lost Congregation’ porcelain collection of heads created for St. Martin’s Church residency April 2026