I am a professionally trained potter, having completed the 3 year Diploma of Studio Ceramics at Central TAFE in the early-mid 1990s. I have also completed a Visual Arts degree, majoring in print-making, and I am a fully qualified Visual Arts teacher.

I have been making pottery for more than 30 years and my work generally reflects my love of the more traditional forms, with a sprinkling of more contemporary forms and glazes. I create all my own glazes, and I work with a variety of stoneware clays of different colours and textures, including custom blends, recycled clays and wild clay dug from around our property in North Greenbushes, making beautiful functional and ergonomic forms that people can use every day, along with award winning art/decor pieces that will add texture, colour and warmth to your living spaces.

With my functional wares I have created a permanent range of colours and textures that can be mixed and matched throughout the collection, so that you can add just one or two pieces at a time and know that you can come back and collect more at a later date.

I also create larger decor pieces such as urns, platters and very large bowls and dishes with layered glazes and natural clays to create interesting surfaces.

In my “Home Ground”, “Crust” and “Detritus” series of work I aim to describe my local natural and human-affected landscapes using the beautiful natural clay deposits from North Greenbushes and surrounding areas. These richly coloured and textured surfaces emphasise that this wonderful material came of the earth itself, it has its own beauty and does not need to be covered by glaze. I have added nothing to these clay slips, but they are partially screened to remove the larger bits of debris and leave only sand and grit. The colours and textures are completely natural. The vessels are made with my recycled stoneware clay blend, and is iron rich, textural and highly speckled. The slips are made from clay deposits I have found at and near my home in the southwest of WA, and together they are fired to around 1280°C, the inside is glazed. In places I have used a small amount of natural red sand.