About 12 years ago I retrained as a Yoga teacher and came back to ceramics, reteaching myself to throw on the wheel and teaching myself to fire, glaze, pull handles etc through trial and error. This body of work combines both practices, which are both very significant to me, both needing focus, understanding, knowledge and control. Both bringing you back into to the moment, asking you to concentrate and respond to what is or isn’t happening.
My initial training was a BA in Fine Art from Bretton Hall in the mid 90’s. After which I was very lucky get a graduate apprenticeship at Pembridge Terracotta in Herefordshire, training from scratch to throw garden flower pots. With in six months going from having never thrown a pot to throwing six kg terracotta pots.
I now mainly throw functional ware, cups, teapots etc in porcelain because I like the strength it has even when thrown fine, giving it more potential to be functional for longer. Allowing the time and energy that goes into making to have less environmental impact and for the object to become part of daily life and ritual. I combine white and black porcelain with hematite inclusions to capture movement and process. When working in clay I want my work to use and explore the properties of the material and the process. So these objects push the porcelain to limits where it’s almost at or is breaking, where it becomes so thin that light can move through it, connecting object, material, viewer and environment. The strength of porcelain holding, containing, allowing any breaks, allowing the beauty of imperfection to be seen, held.
GALLERIES AND EVENTS
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2026
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Potfest City, Glasgow, 27th - 29th November 2026
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Potfest South West, Shaftsbury, 3rd - 5th July 2026
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Craft Festival Bovey, 12th - 14th June 2026
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Potfest in the Pens Spring, Penrith, 5th -7th June
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YSP Shop, Design Nation Spring Summer Made Showcase. Work available in Yorkshire Sculpture Parks showcase in the shop. From mid April 2026.
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Collect Arts Fair, Somerset House, London, 27th of February to 1st March 2026. With Design Nation W14
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2025
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Thrown Contemporary selected Winter Exhibition 27th of November to 11th of January online: www.throwncontemporary.co.uk
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Open Studio, 10 -3 on 7th December. Studio 11 Lower Buckton Barns, Buckton, Herefordshire. Part of Brampton Bryan Collective open studios.
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Potfest, Melton Mowbray, 7th -9th November 2025
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Oxford Ceramics Fair, St Edward's School, OX2 7NN, 25th - 26th October 2025
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Design-Nation Presents, The Hub, Sleaford ,13th September until 9th November 2025
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h-Art Week, Kingsland Church, 6th - 14th September 2025
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Mines, Mills, Milk and Minerals exhibition, South Wales Potters Llangathen Hall, 22nd August to 7th September
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Open Studio, Lower Buckton Buildings, SY7 0JU, 3rd August 2025
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International Ceramics Festival, South Wales Potters Stand 27 - 29th June 2025 Aberystwyth Arts Centre, SY23 3DE
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Bovey Tracey Craft Festival 5th to 7th June 2025
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Potfest Penrith 24th to 26th May 2025
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Open Studio Lower Buckton Buildings 19th April 2025
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Craft Festival Cheltenham 21st to 23rd March 2025
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Find a Maker Member
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Design National Graduate Member
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Brampton Bryan Collective - Open Studios
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Galleries
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Oriel Davies, Newtown, Powys
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The Byre Gallery, Hillside, Hounster Hill, Millbrook, Torpoint, PL10 1AJ
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Oxenham Art, Hereford and Leominster
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Old Chapel Gallery, Pembridge
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Recent events
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Bovey Tracey Craft Festival, 9th to 11th June 2023.
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Cheltenham Craft Festival, 8th to 10th March 2024
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Herefordshire Arts Week, annually
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Exhibitions
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MA Show January 2025
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Pentecost
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Light
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Angels