About

As a maker I feel passionate about the importance of craft, and creative tactile experiences of 'making' in this increasingly digital, virtual, and mass produced world. Working directly with tactile materials I feel puts us in touch with the processes of transformation and change and drives my enthusiasm for sharing the tactile and expressive qualities of clay. This has led me to running creative clay and art workshops, and facilitating collective artworks such as murals, installations and mosaics collaborating with other artists. Jess Carvill and I set up Artstormproject, 'Artists working together' to deliver lasting works of art and facilitating art workshops in the community. 

Walking the weathered landscape of Dartmoor and the Devon coast are a constant source of inspiration, as is my passion for gardening, and growing vegetables on my allotment. The natural world and threatened species, world cultures and travel all inform my practice from making ‘discovered’ objects to exploring and responding to local geology and nature. 

A recent interest in more sustainable approaches to making art have led me to sourcing local clay and helping organicARTS at West Town Farm to set up a pottery workshop resource with access to clay found on the farm.

New threads to my work are a direct response to my locality. They include clay prints from local plants, trees and bark, pigments from the land and finding clay on walks for ‘what3word Devon Small Pots project.