Flame Pot No. 5 - 16

Product description

'I produce work that is often inspired by movement and rhythm in the natural world. Each piece is unique and while I often return to the same themes, I keep the interpretation fresh. I work in porcelain and stoneware, and my thrown and hand-built forms have a calm quality while the surface ripples with movement. This could be an inscribed line suggesting a wave, a spontaneous mark made using metal oxide, or it could be from allowing the action of flame on clay to produce its own, otherworldly effects in a pit fired piece. My choice of colours is also British landscape informed – sea greens and greys, blue, rust, ochre and black, enlivened with copper reds. I’m a member of the Blackwell Hall Wood Kiln Group and I also use pit firing and raku techniques, striving for a contemporary response to these ancient firing methods.

I’ve made pots off and on since childhood - one early memory is digging clay from a Cornish cliff with my father, and I’ve returned many times to this medium, finding pleasure in its elemental qualities.