I’m primarily a home educating mum balancing a busy life full of exciting and valuable things – supporting my son as he grows and develops, connections with family and friends, creating and making with clay, offering open-ended play and art sessions for all ages and working with others to set up and promote inclusive events in my local community.
When I’m making, I hand-build sculptural and functional ceramics in my small studio on the edge of Dartmoor.
I manipulate flecked and grogged stoneware clays using methods involving soft slabs, pinching, coiling, casting, press-moulding and carving. When I’ve created the basic shape I trim, fettle and stamp, leaving the surfaces marked with subtle tactile memories of the making process. I then add layers of matt colour to emphasise the shape and silhouette. I enjoy constructing strong bold forms that use scale, surface quality and repetition to create engaging, playful and animated pieces.
I’m particularly interested in ideas around how we humans connect and communicate with each other, so I often explore the interactions we have and the attachments we make with each other through the objects themselves. I hope to nurture the relationship between the objects and their audience, so I encourage them to be held, touched, animated and interacted with as much as possible!
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