I make ceramics and draw, creating figures and structures that evoke personal and common paradoxes. The work is broadly figurative. My works carry myriad uncertainties rather than single meanings, allowing viewers to discover their own connections. My physical discovery process creates genuine ambiguity and richness – authentic complexity that emerges from real making. In our increasingly digital world, my artwork offers rare encounters with something genuinely made and discovered rather than designed and predetermined.

There is a constant struggle that goes on between control and letting go in both the conception and production of the artwork. My work currently takes the form of still lives, vehicles, figures and hands. Craft or ‘tacit’ (bodily know-how) skills are now more likely to be part of our leisure rather than our everyday work. Whatever skills that I use in handling the material and understanding how it works may show in the finished item but the work also has other content which is likely to overshadow the display of dexterity – both things are going on at the same time.

Makers Headroom

MakersHeadRoom is a weekly online group conducted over Zoom. We work together as a group of individuals, to share our presence and our energy in a virtual space where we concentrate on making. The session is conducted without words but with microphones on. The two hour session on a Monday starts at 2:30pm (BST) until 4:30pm. Sign up for the emails or see the Instagram feed for updates