After a career in performance arts at higher education, I now concentrate on developing some drama or action with clay.

My work still focuses on social interaction and human movement but now the medium is porcelain, mostly wheel-thrown vessels.

Each series of work has pursued a theme or ‘story’ drawn from the act of living. Stories such as ROCK/SWAY where small, rounded vessels tip and tilt with the forces thrown at them, but return upright to their strong core. This series developed initially during 2020.

The E Q U A L series of vessels differ in shape, size, decoration and firing methods.  The one constant feature is that they are bottle-like vessels.  They act as a visual representation of us - different shapes, sizes, colours, belief systems etc but ultimately all the same - living beings that should be treated equally.

In contrast, NEBULA vessels attempt to question or rather contemplate our position as humans on this planet in the universe.  They consider us as ‘but specks on a ball of gas and dust’.  These vessels try to recreate a nebula using glaze & glass on the interior of the vessel, so the eye is drawn in to view more - that which is not immediately visible.

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The oxidation fired works have naked porcelain exteriors, either polished or carved.

I am fascinated by the raw material of porcelain and celebrate it by allowing its visual and tactile qualities to be the focus on the exterior of these vessels. Many of my vessels have carved, scarred naked exteriors. This carving marks, shapes and reshapes the clay body - a metaphor for life (experiences, memories, encounters, relationships) marking and shaping us. Normally the only colour or decoration, via glaze, metals, oxides and glass, appears on the interior of the vessels, at the ‘heart’ of them. 

The pitfired vessels follow a somewhat different path being burnished, although carving can still feature.  The vessels have a wide variety of colour and mark-making on their exterior surfaces. These form variation 5 of the E Q U A L series.