I qualified with a BA in Fine Art Painting and an MA in Public Art before embarking on a career in teaching via Art Galleries and Museums in the North West of England. In 2014 I sold up and permanently moved to rural France to renovate an old farmhouse, live more self-sufficiently and re-open my studio
From childhood, there has always been an interest and love of clay. Art school offers so many creative avenues to explore and a career in teaching even more. This is my circling back and settling into ceramics.
During my time as a teacher, I taught and practiced the importance of resources, especially environmental ones, as a means to expand imagination and creativity and to deepen respect for all life.
I make small batches of clay incorporating wild clay from my land and paper pulp to create one-off sculptures and pieces. A range of hand-building techniques are used, coiling, slab work, carving before applying layers of coloured slip, ash glaze, copper wire, and then finally firing to 1040c. I enjoy very much working in this limited way with an every-changing clay body. It gives the finished work a unique quality and querkiness hard to achieve with commercial clay. It is truly personal and my hands are on it every step of the journey.
Once the clay is gone, that's it for that series of work. Then the whole process starts again.
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