Welcome

I am always working to convey a sense of optimism and wonder within each piece. Working with a limited palette of striking colours against the ice-white clay my ceramics feature crisp, fluid patterns inspired by botanical structures and movement across rural landscapes such as a swallow’s flight or a breeze through a wheat field. Colour schemes represent birdlife, like goldfinch and kingfisher.

Some of the work has been created in response to Seasonal Affective Disorder, which follows the seasons and is impacted by lack of sunlight. Seeing the light shine through the translucent clay feels like a ray of sunlight.

Growing up in a village surrounded by farmland and woodland, I've always had an affinity with nature. I was that child that would stop in the middle of the path to examine the patterns on a leaf, or the sun shining through a droplet of dew on a spider's web; to watch a grasshopper jumping or wonder at the fluttering, erratic movement of a butterfly or a bumblebee. My interest in the minuscule detail and the way that nature can create seemingly random patterns that have an organic beauty and underlying purpose has followed me throughout life and now manifests in the work I create.