My motive remains constant regardless of material and method in that I prefer my work to serve a purpose, even if that purpose is not based on a functionality that is obvious in the traditional sense. My practice explores the nature of instinctual form in relation to unorthodox surface methodology, the intention being to achieve a random mix of chaos and order, a hard task given the extended process of clay to ceramic and the volatile nature of heat and chemicals.

To achieve this craved for ‘tension of opposites’ I repetitively use variations along a seventeen-year-old theme: -

Hand built soft sheet assemblage juxtaposed to create hollow form, sometimes humped and slumped, usually accessorised with specific elements that allude to ‘function’. I multifire and multisurface, my material preference being terracotta with a light toned slip ground overlaid by 1970’s reference acid brights, undertoned by ‘rural idyll’ earth pigments, suspended in both matt and gloss vitreous formulae, scratched through to reveal and overlaid to obscure, always accented with precious metals and lustre’s.

I like to think that my work is about something ‘other’ than itself, awkward balance and rhythmic narrative always present, always linked, the tangible object on the shelf representing the sometimes intangible whole.

Vive la difference!