Born in the UK and emigrated to Australia in 1988,where I studied at the National Art School in Sydney winning the State Medal in 1993.

I set up a workshop making tableware and handmade tiles in Sydney. In 1997 I moved to the mid-north coast of New South Wales, where I built workshop and gallery, making ranges of tableware and woodfired pots in porcelain and stoneware. I lived there until 2002, when I returned to the UK setting up a new workshop in Lode, Cambridgeshire. Here I have built three kilns: a saltglaze kiln, a thermally efficient gas kiln and a wood kiln in which I fire all my work.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

I like to continually develop my work, always moving on and exploring new approaches and ideas. A firing never occurs that does not have tests in it. Often these lead nowhere but every now and then they are the keys to new doors opening. Pottery is exciting and there is nothing like the thrill of opening a successful firing that is able to amaze you.

Until recently my work in porcelain has been about purity and expression of the plasticity of clay and the rich fluidity of certain glazes that help to illustrate the dynamism of the firing process. This contrasted with the dirty smoky wood firngs that produce highly variable surfaces, rugged in stoneware but softer and warmer in porcelain clays that I make up myself.

My current work is a departure from some of the ragged textured surfaces that I was producing earlier. Less about purity and more about contrast of the pure and the dark and unrefined. Pots are made in a black stoneware that is then built up with layers of slips and glazes that produce a remarkable depth of surface. Often quiet and contained, it is not until you look deep into them that their richness and dynamism is revealed.