After many years of making shoreline inspired functional pottery and teaching others to make pots on the pottery wheel, I decided to take 2025 as a year of creativity.  It has been a welcome break from ‘business pottery’ and allowed me to play with clay again, learn new skills and develop a new look to my ceramics.  When you visit you will see a wide range of new work including hand built and thrown vessels incorporating local sands, river silt and foraged clays. There will be small earthy sculptural pieces alongside colourful test pots.  I successfully achieved a Visual Art and Craft Maker Award in March 2025 which allowed me to take on a project to test and experiment with a variety of surface decoration techniques to achieve a look of collage, reflecting my sketchbook practice.  I can already see how this project will inform new work and I look forward to exhibiting these pots at Cowal Open Studios this year.

For the first time I’m joined at the studio by my eldest, Skye, who last took part 2 years ago under the emerging young artist programme run by Cowal Open Studios.  Since then, they have been studying costume design and construction while creating puppets and furthering their skills of lino cut printing.

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