I have always been drawn to making ceramics with organic forms, surfaces and textures.
My vessels are often curved in form, carrying a simplicity and relationship to nature itself. My work can be variously thrown on the wheel, coiled or slab built. As the vessels dry, smooth surfaces are burnished with a stone to a soft sheen, whereas textured surfaces are created with complex layers of slip, engobe and oxides. Surfaces are left unglazed, exposing the raw clay surfaces.
My motivation as an artist is to make pieces which suggest that they were not made, but were partly formed by nature itself. Using techniques which cannot be precisely controlled, surfaces evolve to mirror nature's slow progression. Vessels have a quiet authority, suggesting resilience, or how nature can thrive if we leave it alone. Each piece embodies the stillness of places that are left wild or have been abandoned.
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