A member of the Designer Craftsmen Association I have been working with clay and designing unique ceramics since 1978 to create decorative ceramics for the home and garden.  

I started to work with clay as a teenager growing up in Northern Ireland and Yorkshire. I enjoy the immediacy and playfulness of working with clay, making impressions on the surface and allowing for chance transformations. 

Passionate about wild landscape and nature, my ceramics are inspired by the atmosphere andhistorical imprint of spaces. My work ranges from small garden sculptures and small vessels to jewellery and fabric and ceramic collages. 

I like to use clay in a playful fashion to create ceramic surface and form to reflect the nature of landscape. Using torn and textured clay gives my hand-built forms and collages a rugged naturalistic finish which are then painted in a pallet of soft colours reflecting changing light quality of time and place. I currently work primarily with porcelain clay and make my own colours using coloured slips and underglaze pigments applied under clear glazes.

Recently I have been combining my love of fabrics with my ceramics to create a series of landscapes collages and sculptures inspired by the places I love. Regular recent visits to Northwest Scottish coast & the Orkney Isles have inspired a series of collages exploring a combination of fabric and ceramic collage to evoke the extraordinary light quality of our northernmost seashores. 

This inspiration has also informed a series of sculptural elements for my small, rather wild garden. These are designed to integrate with the garden and sometimes accommodate plants. They are intended to create structure at all times of the year despite the season and growth in the garden.  These can be seen when I exhibit with Warwickshire open Studios each year