Artist's Statement

I make ceramic installations.  My work is autobiographical, intensely human and intensely private because I believe that only through the truly personal can I hope to strike a universal chord.  The work is a narrative piecing together of fragments of memory  filtered through time and experience.

I use unconventional combinations of materials in my work. Layers of tulle, flowers and feathers, nickel chrome wire and liquid porcelain are sculpted together   before firing in a kiln.  Ceramic processes are highly resonant here – the transformation of materials in the kiln is used to explore the transformative qualities of experience and emotion.  Fabric and flowers disintegrate during the firing process leaving their trace in porcelain, providing a material metaphor for the absent presence.  The work also moves and distorts, creating a geological wardrobe with fault lines as seams.  Exploring the point at which something falls apart  yet just holds together, gives me a working metaphor for the human condition.

I also occasionally make one off decorative pieces for private clients and teach a course in Sculptural Ceramics at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute.