....and take inspiration from my environment: from the big skies we have here to the reflections of venetian blinds. I am particularly drawn to using shape and texture to represent movement -be it the clouds across the sky, the plants growing on the land or the ceaseless movement of the ducks and hens- they all fire my imagination.

Over the years I have made both wheel-thrown & hand-built ceramics in the maiolica tradition, where I have applied colour by brushstroke on to the unfired tin glaze, using a red clay.

During covid I decided to stop using red clay as I wanted to work with porcelain and didn’t want to contaminate the white porcelain with the iron from the red clay. I made a series of thrown porcelain pots decorated by brushwork of trees in winter.

More recently I have been studying the way dancers move to make my work with either slabs or coils of grogged white clay to convey their movements.