About the ArtistCeramics was where my journey as an artist began. Working with clay taught me to trust my hands, to pay attention to the material and to accept that some of the best things happen when they aren't planned.
Over the years my work has expanded into painting, ink, metal and mixed media. I’ve never felt the need to stay within one medium. Each offers a different way of thinking and making, and I enjoy moving between them. |
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I tend to follow my curiosity rather than work to a fixed plan. One experiment often leads to another, and sometimes a material suggests a direction I hadn't considered.
I’m not particularly interested in making work simply because it is technically perfect. I want it to have a presence of its own — something that makes you stop for a moment and look again.
There are plenty of pieces that don't work. They are part of making too. The important thing is remaining curious enough to keep trying.
After all these years, that curiosity is still what brings me back to the studio.
I’m not particularly interested in making work simply because it is technically perfect. I want it to have a presence of its own — something that makes you stop for a moment and look again.
There are plenty of pieces that don't work. They are part of making too. The important thing is remaining curious enough to keep trying.
After all these years, that curiosity is still what brings me back to the studio.
The Practice
My work is rooted in a fascination with form, surface and the physical nature of materials.
Ceramics was my starting point, and clay still influences the way I work. I’m interested in how a form changes through the marks of the hand, the application of glaze and paint, and the unpredictability of firing. Cracks, variations and imperfections can become as important as the original form.
That interest in surface has carried into my painting, ink and mixed-media work. I enjoy the behaviour of materials — paint flowing and pooling, ink spreading beyond a mark, layers building up, and surfaces changing through weathering and time.
I don’t work towards one particular style. I’m more interested in exploring an idea and seeing where it leads. Sometimes the result is quiet and restrained; sometimes it is more energetic and unexpected.
Across the different mediums, I keep coming back to the same thing: the pleasure of making and discovering something I could not have completely planned.
The work rewards looking slowly. There are often details, textures and changes in surface that reveal themselves over time.
Ceramics was my starting point, and clay still influences the way I work. I’m interested in how a form changes through the marks of the hand, the application of glaze and paint, and the unpredictability of firing. Cracks, variations and imperfections can become as important as the original form.
That interest in surface has carried into my painting, ink and mixed-media work. I enjoy the behaviour of materials — paint flowing and pooling, ink spreading beyond a mark, layers building up, and surfaces changing through weathering and time.
I don’t work towards one particular style. I’m more interested in exploring an idea and seeing where it leads. Sometimes the result is quiet and restrained; sometimes it is more energetic and unexpected.
Across the different mediums, I keep coming back to the same thing: the pleasure of making and discovering something I could not have completely planned.
The work rewards looking slowly. There are often details, textures and changes in surface that reveal themselves over time.
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