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ABOUT ME...
I have returned to high-fire reduction ceramics after a long time spent at mid-fire temperatures. My work is influenced by pre-Roman archaeology, and feeds from my interest in early technologies, notably metal smelting. I have demonstrated both nationally and internationally and my work is in private collections around the world. I teach both Ceramics and Experimental Archaeology to adults.
“At the beginning I was looking to the past for my inspiration. Whereas now I realise that the past is truly relevant as a springboard from which to embrace the future”
My work has carried me from adolescence to middle age, through all the changes in perception and understanding, clay has been there, like the ocean in which I surf, always the same, and yet always different and new.
I have taken part in many exhibitions, most notably at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and at the Aberystwyth International Centre for Ceramics in Wales as well as many other venues.
I am passionately interested in Experimental Archaeology, wanting to know how our forebears lived. As part of this I regularly demonstrate early technologies (mostly fire related), both nationally and internationally. This has led me into T.V. and video work, appearing on and acting as a consultant on, such programmes as Time Tourists.
My interest in the “Celtic” Iron Age has led me to be involved with the Maori people in Aotearoa and some of their imagery and working methods inspires my work, alongside the more traditional Celtic patterns and forms.
My ethic is to question the universe, Why? How? What? And to take the answers and go on to more questions, delighting in the journey of exploration.
My inspiration comes from the colours of flame, the flowing shapes of water, images of deep space, Schrodinger’s Cat, quantum thermodynamics, surfing, the sound of rain on the roof of the kiln shed, Bizen pottery….
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