Learning Journey

Deep gratitude to Arts Council England’s Developing Your Creative Practice funding Words cannot express the profound and deeply creative, challenging, joyful, grounding journey I have been on these last two years. An inkling to…

How can art bring embodiment and environmental awareness back into such trivial actions as walking?   “We were once enwombed in the earth and the silence of the body remembers that dark, inner longing.…

Exploring the use of clay in animism and ritual practices “It is a necessary path to the restoration of a proper kind of life. We should not use natural things as if they are…

What can a lone pair of hands do amidst climate chaos and eco anxiety? I can make myself become quiet and do the work, I can carve a calm place within myself and remember…

Moving between mind and body, clay and breath, moving in circles shaping clay outward. Every still starting point comes from nothing, deep frictions of earth layers, moving, shaping, joining. I am doing the work…

Exploring natural pigments made from rocks and clays collected from the European and African landscape This month at ICS Hungary is a deep dive into place-based ceramics inspired by the natural world. I wanted…

It all starts with EARTH. I’m super excited and grateful to have started my fourth and final ceramic residency of this journey exploring ceramics and the four elements, as part of Arts Council’s DYCP…

‘Sure, let’s go learn to throw on the wheel with the most velvety, volatile, unforgiving clay out there’. Throwing myself into the deep end with learning to throw porcelain on the wheel was this…

Getting out of my head and into my hands As part of my third ceramic residency, in the series of four representing the four elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Air) and four seasons (Spring, Summer,…

When kicking off this next ceramic residency focusing on the element of Fire in the mountains of Georgia I knew I wanted to work with the masculine principal, the Warrior archetype symbolising energy, power,…