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Overview
ARTIST’S STATEMENT:
My ceramic work is an exploration into the relationship between form and colour. Inspired by the paintings of Giorgio Morandi, I strive for the harmony and simplicity conveyed by his pictures of groups of bottles and other vessels, and also his landscape paintings. I decorate my work with a smooth earthenware glaze of my own invention; the inspiration comes from all the colours in nature: flowers, fruit, the landscape. As Morandi said, “What interests me most is expressing what is in nature, in the visible world”.
Education
1992-3 Wimbledon School of Art Foundation Studies
1993- 6 Camberwell College of Arts BA (Hons) Ceramics
Career history
I began making pots in 1992, after an earlier career in the television industry. After graduating from Camberwell I set up in a shared studio in Battersea and began to make and sell work at open studios and craft fairs In 2000 I moved to Farnham. For two years I had a studio at Farnham Pottery, and then for fifteen years I worked from a rural studio in Kingsley, Hampshire. I now work from a garden studio at home. I taught Ceramics to children and adults for many years, delivering workshops and teaching classes in schools, adult education centres and museums across Surrey and Hampshire. My work is now stocked in over 20 prestigious galleries throughout the UK, and in many private collections.
Publications
My work has featured in Ceramic Review, Ideal Home Magazine, Good Homes, House Beautiful, Huffington Post, YOU Magazine, Coast, The Independent on Sunday, Country Homes and Interiors and The Daily Mail.