a short story

After many years running a successful interior design business in Oxfordshire, a move to Herefordshire enabled me to change direction and dedicate my time to creating ceramics, primarily by throwing on the wheel. I started my learning with a ceramics course and subsequently built on that knowledge with throwing and glazing courses at Clay College, Stoke with Andy Mason and Kevin Millward and most recently with Jem Steward at Wobage Workshops.

My work is inspired by the natural beauty of the land and sea I have experienced here in Herefordshire as well as in my time living in Scotland. Through the use of slip and glazes applied in interesting layers, I look to capture the energy, flow and transitions in colour and texture that nature's palette offers us.

Sustainability

Creating ceramics can have a negative impact on the environment, be that through the disposal of materials to the very high consumption of electricity. To address that as much as I am able, harvested rain water is used and recycled in the studio, I recycle used and left over clay and I use solar energy to power the electrics in my studio and run my electric kiln. I fire each piece of pottery twice. The first firing is the biscuit, or bisque fire, the second firing is the glaze, or gloss firing. Each kiln firing consumes 19-24kWh of electricity and between April and October each year I am able to run the kiln on approximately 75-100% solar power.