There are two strands to my practice as a maker. One complements my training as a maker of utilitarian ceramic vessels. This is a small range of thrown tableware including teapots, lidded jars, bowls and cup forms in stoneware and porcelain clays. The other is a developing interest in sculptural form.

What is emerging in my work is an interest in the poetry of the everyday, overlooked details, the incidental. This could be architectural space, fragments of material, industrial archaeology, incidental marks, evidence of presence or event. I see the work I am currently exploring as a series of glimpses. They are short, pithy, statements, not extended essays.

The current forms have a visual solidity that belies the construction methods of slab building. I am working within certain pragmatic and self imposed limitations, using a mono or two tone palette; a black firing sculptural clay body and porcelain slip. In some ways I am attempting to discover, to extricate, the sensual in the concrete.