I love making objects that might have a use, although function is often subverted in the interests of playing with materials, sometimes nudging them in counter-intuitive ways.

Most of my current work is a development of an interest that began in exploring threads of commonality between the tea ceremony objects, specifically the tea bowl, and abstract expressionist painting and sculpture.

Discarding notions of static utilitarian objects overlayed with “decoration” I try to use the inherent, very plastic nature of the clay materials to convey an expressive, visceral quality, utilising the tensions between symmetry and asymmetry, chaos and control. The felicitous accident, when it happens, can be a real bonus.