My work is embedded in a love of working with clay and wheel throwing, direct contact with the material, working with material qualities of clay bodies. I make in porcelain because it offers plasticity and the ability to be thrown thin, fine, which when fired, appear fragile and translucent, but are strong and useable. These properties combined with a simplicity of colour ground of raw ceramic body offers a subtle visual and tactile quality to the surface when vessels are part glazed, allowing colours to ping, and white glaze to rest quietly inform my design choices. My work is made to be used and to hopefully to be a joy to use, to be objects that settle into the home and last.

 

This investigation into porcelain also underpins research for my MA in Contemporary Crafts, using embodied metaphor of porcelain vessels to discuss a lived experience of Yoga.