The prerequisite of learning and progressing is an open mind, everything and everyone is a potential influence.
The more I have worked with clay the more I have noticed that it is not just the skill that creates but mainly the maker’s personality. My work is a reflection of myself at this point in my creative life. Creative practice is subject to continuous change. 

My work prior to my MA embodied a more traditional approach to salt-glaze. It emphasised utilitarian form decorated by coloured slips applied during the making of the vessel. Soft clay was marked and distorted with a freedom which sought to capture the energy of the freshly thrown clay.

My focus now is principally on colour. I hope to achieve a shift in the audience’s expectation of ceramics and salt-glaze by contesting and challenging its traditional parameters of colour, surface, utility and aesthetic role. In order to do this effectively I have reached out and away from ceramics and looked for inspiration in the study of colour theory. The new body of work is designed to communicate new potential in colour for ceramics, not just in the range of colours attainable but also in its ability to express a concept beyond that of common utility. Aspects of colour theory in action.