I started working with clay in 2006 when I moved to Chipping Campden in The Cotswolds and made a dinner service for our family home with potter Alice Shepherd. Over the years I have had private tuition with a variety of experts whose work I admire. I continually marvel at the breadth and depth of this craft and how there is always more to learn! Since 2017 I’ve been making ceramics under the tutelage of Hilary La Force and have also attended City of Oxford College, developing throwing techniques, learning mould making and glaze mixing skills. My work involves handbuilding, throwing and slipcasting and I mix all my own glazes. With the recent addition of a studio in the garden, I have an immense sense of liberation which I believe has enhanced my work. 

I will always love texture, a neutral palate and the slightly non perfect! I love the weight, feel and look of an old frayed crumpled piece of linen and if has been darned and has stains then even better! I am not trying to create perfection but to play with the beauty of imperfection and experiment with how far I can push the clay to give me the effect I am looking for. It is based on instinct and the feeling I get when I look at a creation. If I don’t get that glow of happiness or feeling of excitement, I collapse the clay in my hands and start all over again….