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Delighted to have a body of work accepted for the Harley Open 2026 - five lotus bowls as a narrative of Individual Consciousness - a returning to your true nature.
'Individual Consciousness. Held, beauty in imperfection.'
One of five lotus bowls selected as a body to Harley Open 2026.
I'm also delighted to be given the chance to have Kyra Kane as my Craft Potters Association Mentor. Exciting to keep learning, pushing my work and improving skills and knowledge with the help and insight of such an incredible potter.
Objects of contemplation, thrown porcelain balanced forms and lotus bowls.
In the points of stillness, a pause, a moment to be present, to notice, we connect with ourselves, those around us and the world around us. The practice of yoga helping you to undo learnt behaviours and beliefs to return to more of your true nature, true-self, your individual consciousness, allowing you to become more aware and present.
In combining my practices of yoga and ceramics I use material properties of thrown, trimmed and carved porcelain, process, forms and outcomes as embodied metaphors of a lived experience of yoga. Drawing on accepted personification of pots as bodies, containers of life, to represent individual consciousness - the true-self. Combined with boundary metaphor, circles as cycles of life - to orientate self within place, world, environment, within the whole – within universal consciousness.
The objects of contemplation shown at Collect 2026 are individual pieces, a pot and a circle/curved form, which when combined lift and hold each other at a point that they cannot rest at on their own. Finding balance and harmony, stillness, in connection, in relation.
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Collect
'Individual Consciousness within Universal Consciousness'
Objects for table and home - Dharma 'of purpose'
As a Yoga Teacher I express letting go of learnt behaviours to reveal your true-self and finding balance within universal consciousness through thrown and trimmed porcelain vessels. Using material properties, process and form as embodied metaphors. Pots as bodies - containers of life, trimming as letting go, function as Dharma. Spangles and black porcelain inclusions capturing movement, lift, process.
Part of my practice as a potter and yoga teacher is to be in action, to have purpose and function. These pots are functional and there is joy in making pots that will be used, enjoyed in daily life whilst embracing the language of lift, movement of energy through process and working with material properties. There is joy in hoping these pots become part of daily ritual, present, used, held, part of a simple pleasure of taking time to to notice, taste, enjoy the first tea or coffee of the day.
Dharma pots can currently be found at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in the Design Nation Professional Members Made Showcase
The Hay Makers Gallery in Hay-on-Wye
and will be at
Only Clay, Sheffield 10-11th October
and
Potfest in the City, Glasgow 27-29th November