I‘m a maker.

I am descended from gardeners, cooks, builders, thinkers, and fixers.

My hand thrown vessels are mainly porcelain with a celadon glaze. An understated glaze, it serves as a soothing canvas for food. Simple and elegant; a panacea for modern living.

I love making short runs of work and noticing minute changes in form - natural selection at work - paring away the unnecessary, leaving pure forms. Clay is beautiful. When you hold it, you change it. Fragile yet, once fired, strong enough to last millennia.

A perfect carrier of stories.

It was 1994, while completing a degree in English Literature, that I went to a night class in Ceramics. I was instantly hooked - no going back. Fortunately, Otago is home to a ceramics degree course, so the next four years were spent at the Dunedin School of Art, South Island of New Zealand.

On graduating, I worked from my garden studio for several years, then took up the position of resident potter at Glenfalloch, a picturesque garden on the Otago Peninsula. In 2005, I spent some amazing months as a studio assistant in the ceramics department at Peters Valley, New Jersey, USA. Now, I work from my home studio in Dunedin. I also return to art school once a week – this time as a teacher.

Exhibition highlights include:

• selection for The Portage ceramic awards 2004, ‘Of Heralds and Harbingers’

• solo shows at Milford Gallery, Dunedin and Green Gallery, Waiheke Island.