Photo by Sarah Weal

I am an artist living in the Weald region of East Sussex. I respond to the countryside around me, and the rhythms of everyday life. I started making art in my thirties whilst my children were little, and the constant juggle of raising a family, working, and making art became an important part of my artistic inspiration. I re-trained at West Dean College.  I now teach alongside making, back at West Dean, and also on Arts for Wellbeing programmes.  I am Chair of the artist coo-operative Chalk Gallery Lewes.

I work in clay and cloth.  I make hand-built clay vessels that use the pinch and coil method which I smoke fire using materials gathered on walks: bracken, thistledown, dock and dandelion. I also use locally dug Sussex clay.

These ceramics are accompanied by textile work, carefully patched and stitched pieces made from calico which are dyed using materials such as hawthorn, sloes and nettles along with rust, ink and my own writing.  This work aims to capture the memory of walking in the Sussex countryside.   Fragments of memories, lovingly protected.

 Slow making, seeking to capture a time, a place and a feeling.