Why So Many Areas

One Practice, Not Six

Before becoming a ceramic sculptor, I spent many years working in architecture and interior design, while also exploring drawing, painting, model making, furniture and other forms of creative practice.

Those years taught me to really look. To look at form, proportion, structure, space, materials, surface and colour — and at the relationship between people and the places they live in. None of that was learned as theory. It was learned by drawing something, building it, standing in it, and finding out where it was wrong.

Now, working in clay, I find that all of those experiences continue to shape the way I see and make sculpture. When I am building a head, I am still thinking about structure and proportion. When I am glazing, I am still thinking about surface and colour. When I am working out how a figure will stand, I am still thinking the way a designer thinks about how something holds itself up.

These sections are not separate stories. They are the journey that brought me to the figure.

So I have kept them here, in one place, rather than tidying away the work that came before. A sculpture does not begin at the moment the clay is opened. It begins much earlier, in everything that taught you how to look.

What You Will Find Here

Each section can be read on its own, and the two sculpture series are where the current work lives.

• 30 Women, 30 CareersThe current body of work — thirty life-sized figurative sculptures celebrating women across professional and life roles.
• Good & EvilA series in development, exploring the human struggle between temptation and faith, darkness and light.
• Selected Ceramic WorkSculpture, vessels, plates and experiments in surface, texture and glaze that sit outside the two series.
• Painting & DrawingObservation of the figure, form, proportion and colour — part of my practice since the earliest studies, and still part of it now.
• Architecture, Interiors, Model Making & Furniture DesignSelected work from more than twenty-five years, with the models and furniture designed alongside it.
• Fashion Design & IllustrationGarments designed, patterned and made by hand for the runway — where the making began.

Where It Goes Now

The work I am making today is figurative ceramic sculpture, and that is where my attention sits. The rest is here because it is honest about how I arrived.

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