My practice begins with clay gathered from the local landscape and shaped on the wheel into vessels that carry a direct relationship to place. The material’s particular textures, colours and imperfections remain visible, allowing the land to speak through each form.
I am drawn to the shifting threshold where land meets sea – a boundary continually made and unmade by tides, weather and erosion. This transient space informs the vessels’ contours and surfaces: softened edges, tidal marks and layered glazes evoke rock pools, sediment and the traces left as water recedes.
Although rooted in functional forms, these works are also records of change. Each vessel holds the tension between permanence and impermanence: earth transformed by fire, yet marked by a coastline that never stays still. Through them, I explore our connection to fragile landscapes and the fleeting moments in which they reveal themselves.
