Figurehead: Girl Sculpture

My work focuses on the figure, both in the abstract forms permitted in functional pottery and through figurative ‘gesture’ sculptures. Working with the freedom of these forms expresses aspects of myself and of my life experience. Having suffered major burn trauma in my twenties, these injuries continue to be accommodated in my daily life. The dialogue in my work at present focuses on womanhood and the results, or lessons, of those experiences. Clay’s capacity to reveal hidden, sometimes ancient knowledge is an act of transformation, which I return to again and again. I graduated in Ceramic Design from Central St Martins in 2013. I first began to make pottery following a major accident (2004) and through attending courses with Sandy Brown at her studio in Appledore in Devon. I am a qualified meditation teacher and combine the innately mindful qualities of working with clay with these approaches in my pottery teaching studio in Elstree, UK