I make stoneware ceramics for everyday use, to enhance the rituals of morning tea or coffee and shared meals. Part of the joy of making and sharing meals is choosing the right bowl or dish to serve it in, the food and the pot complementing one another.

I started working with clay when my children were young, making a space in my week for creativity and the mindful practice of pottery. Since then after completing an MA in Contemporary Crafts at Farnham UCA specialising in stitched and printed textiles I returned to ceramics and now work from my home studio in Salisbury.

Throwing pots on the wheel is about creating forms and curves that feel right in my hands as well as to the eye. The texture and brushstrokes of the glaze, the weight of the pot in your hand and the marks of the making process come together to create something unique.

I work with a flecked stoneware clay body, which brings warmth to the glazes with flecks of iron showing through in tiny specks of brown and yellow. I mix my glazes from raw materials using oxides to colour them. Matte dolomite and glossy tin white glazes are brushed with a subtle range of blues and greys.