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.

These vessels 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 my work. Many of the vessels have carved, scarred naked exteriors. This carving marks, shapes and reshapes the clay body - a metaphor for life where experiences, memories, encounters, relationships mark and shape 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.

Important to all my work is the extremes of surface. When polished, it is silky smooth to the touch. When carved, it offers a ridged, rough terrain.

My pieces are made to be touched, held, engaged with.

Each series of work has pursued a theme or ‘story’ drawn from the act of living.

HOLD STILL (tall) is a series of upright, bottle-like porcelain vessels with a calm, meditative presence. Their carved, unglazed exteriors carry marks that echo how memory, experience, emotion, and scar shape us. Though “scarred,” they remain composed, standing with quiet strength and endurance. A lifted stance, with a nest-like stillness. Alone, paired, or grouped, they hold space like sentinels, forming silent dialogues.

In contrast, NEBULA vessels attempt to 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 by using glaze & glass on the interior of the vessel, so the eye is drawn in to view more - that which is not immediately visible.

More stories - such as STIR, SWIRL and GATHERING - can be found on the Gallery page.