“My work focuses its attention on sculptural concerns and material qualities. I am interested in form and surface, light and space. I have learnt traditional skills and techniques to explore the potential of ceramic materials. Clay in its sedimentary form is inert and yet, somehow living. I am interested in discovering and revealing properties it has to experience the joy of creating. Play informs my work and is indeed the central pillar to all that I do. My children help me to keep an eye open to this idea and their imaginative play always inspires me.

Clay is like a mirror, it reflects all that is done to it and provides a visual record of process, if one is bold it shows clearly, mistakes cannot be concealed. Therefore skill is essential and has to be acquired through trial and error and then practice. I am very interested in the unity of an object. In the case of a pot this means that the form, the surface, the inside, the rim and the case all have to work together and meant the same thing to one another for the object to be considered a success.”