Posts from — March 2011

Christchurch Park

Snow was swirling all around the park, the sky looked heavy and pinky-grey and the trees were slightly opaque.

“Pier View” is plastic clay and oil on canvas  40 x30 cms

This is the view from my balcony on a winter’s morn. The horizon is constantly changing and this was a day when it was there and contributing to the whole land and seascape.

My work is of an abstract quality and evolves as a response to my environment, shapes and patterns in nature particularly influence me, and these images are then distilled into non-representational interpretations.

I work in stoneware and porcelain combining traditional methods and materials to create contemporary sculptural pieces which are often fused with metal, wood or slate: I am particularly interested in colours derived from natural sources.  Much of the work is hand-built, and colour has been achieved using oxides and traditional firing methods such as raku and smoke firing.

I seek a balance between the controlled structure of the work and the chaos of the firing.  These elements combine in the production of the finished form and surface.