I specialise in wheel-thrown domestic and decorative stoneware. At college, while training for a B.Ed, I met David Leach, the eldest son of Bernard Leach (known as the ‘father’ of English studio pottery). David inherited his father's intuitive, evolutionary development of forms and how they were glazed. He taught me to make my own glazes, rather than buying them, and to use organic glaze materials rather than chemicals. Since then I have always sourced local clays, and most of the clays I now use come from the Forest of Dean and Herefordshire. From them I make slip-glazes which interact with my organic celadon glazes to create natural Chun effects in blues, greens and purples.

My pots are designed for everyday use, their shapes a collaboration of natural forms with their ultimate purpose or function. Further decoration is with small ammonite sprigs, wax or leaf resist, and sgraffito.

Personal tuition by arrangement: particularly throwing but also slab work.