Portfolio
I’m a neurodivergent ceramic artist based in Lancaster. My work centres on whimsy, not as a distraction, but as something essential in a world obsessed with productivity. As an artist and teacher, I help people reconnect with play, imagination, and the parts of themselves that get lost under pressure and burnout. My work engages with life’s mess, sometimes directly, sometimes as a starting point to imagine something new.
Much of my thinking begins at my allotment: a space of experimentation, reciprocity, and community. I gift back to the soil after harvests, trade produce with neighbours, and share the ecosystem with birds, bugs, and a hedgehog in my polytunnel. These everyday acts reflect my interest in gift economies, matriarchal values, and mutual care. In the studio, I use clay and other materials to explore connection, belonging and futures we can grow together, seeking moments of joy, care, and possibility at every step.
I teach and exhibit work at my studio, Assembly Arts, based in Lancaster which I set up alongside Alan Morris and Sarah Galloway in 2023.
Body of Work
Long term, ongoing, project exploring emotional memory through self portraits.
In a Pickle, 2023. Terracotta, stoneware, mason stains.
Grandma’s eyes, 2023. Porcelain, mason stains, metal wire.
Painting the corridor, 2023. Terracotta, Porcelain slip.
Mirena, 2022, limited print.
The Teacher
Commissioned Sculptural work inspired by cave paintings and shamanic imagery. Approx 45cm tall. Mask can be moved to encourage further mindfulness and interaction with the piece.
The Teacher, 2024. Stoneware, slip, Lancaster stone. Front profile
The Teacher, 2024. Stoneware, slip, Lancaster stone. Sgraffito and slip detail on mask.
The Teacher, 2024. Stoneware, slip, Lancaster stone. Side profile
The Teacher, 2024. Stoneware, slip, Lancaster stone. Back profile cropped
Hidden Words
Ongoing Creative Development Project exploring word play through poetry, symbology and developed language.
Even Eight, Morse Code, Terracotta, Slip, Driftwood
Poem in progress, 2024, Ink on paper
Counting the skips, 2024, Collagraph and ink on acid free paper.
What subject?(!), 2021, Ink on paper
Birthed by fire
A collection reflecting a period of adaptation and rediscovery. Healing from a hospital stay and faced with the unexpected limitations of 2020, I embraced pit firing, finding freedom in its unpredictable beauty. These pieces embody a surrender to the process, a celebration of the unique marks of fire and smoke.
Forest Seed Pod, 2020, Stoneware, slip, pit fired.
Urchin, 2022, Stoneware, pit fired.
Pebble Vases, 2022, Stoneware & Pit fired.
Vase, 2021,Stoneware, slip, pit fired.
Functional Commissions
Commissioned functional work is also considered. I enjoy creating sets of work for other creatives such as chefs and florists.
12 piece dinnerware set with unglazed exterior, 2021, stoneware
16 piece dinnerware set in purples and pinks, 2022, stoneware
16 piece dinnerware set, in blues and pinks, 2023, stoneware.
16 piece flower bowl collection. I have produced sets of flower bowls for several florists and wedding planners.