About me
After a life changing event I re- trained to become a designer in ceramics at Staffordshire University . I had previously worked with constructed textiles at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design and was keen to become a weaver. I found like many others before me that sitting for hours at a loom was exhausting and beyond my ability to sit still for such long periods . I was grateful that Staffs Uni to took me onto their 3D Craft – Ceramics course and my journey into ceramics began. My biggest influence was working with Phil Eglin who gave me the confidence to trust in the line drawings I have been making for the past seven years.
My work is very much bound within a Eurocentric design focus . This is something I am working to re dress as I begin to study design influences globally and from a post -colonial perspective. My work has many features of traditional ceramic practices , majolica ware, Staffs china jugs and earthenware thrown pots . I paint with slips and use decals for some of my line drawings . The visual narrative I tell in my current work is influenced through being confined to home in ‘lockdown’ and I have responded to a world viewed through my window. Garden stories and memories of travels feature upon forms that are both familiar and domestic in these collections.

Education
Staffordshire University, June 2014
BA (hons) 3D Design: Crafts
Birmingham Institute of Art & Design
Sept 2009 - June. 2010.
Textile Design
Birmingham University, 1996.
BA (hons) English
Exhibitions
2018
Top Drawer -London , Olympia
Earth and Fire International Ceramics Fair, Welbeck.
MADE – Marylebone , London October 2018
LUSTRE – Nottingham November 2018.
2017
Harrogate – British Craft Trade Fair
Earth and Fire International Ceramics Fair, Welbeck.
Lustre, Notts .
Guldhall Gallery, Stafford.
2016
The Contemporary Craft Fair, Devon
MADE Bloomsbury, London
The Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair, Mancs
Derby Museum and Art Gallery, ‘Interventions’ collection.
Middleport Pottery ,Stoke On Trent, ‘makers @middleport ‘.
2015
Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair
La Terrahlia , St Quentin la Potterie, France
Earth and Fire, Nottingham
The Contemporary Craft Fair, Bovey Tracey
SOCK, Loughborough
Middleport Pottery Christmas Show , Stoke-On-Trent
Melborne Arts Trail, Derbyshire.
The Art Market, Holmfirth.
2014
Staffordshire Graduates Show, The Potteries Museum
Graduate Degree Show, Staffordshire University
New Designers , London
Midland Potters Association, Barewall Gallery , Stoke.