where land meets sky, river touches earth, and trees sprinkle their wisdom across the undulating hills – there is no end to the inspiration that feeds the creation of my landscape vessels/

geology, rock formations, and the earth’s minerals, have always fascinated me. As a young child I would forage fossils at Severn Beach with my Father; and in my latter years, I hike every day exploring the landscape on the Mendip Hills near my studio/

the first vessel I made was inspired by the work of Ewen Henderson, who I was fortunate to interview during my BA (Hons) Ceramics, many years ago. He too was inspired by landscape, and enjoyed the freedom of hand-buildiing, considering matters such as memory, invention and metaphor/

my memory of landscape is not only visual, but energetic; the feelings and sensations that arise as I walk and explore, seep into my being. This informs both the way I make and what arises from the Potter’s Wheel. I always start by throwing the base, enjoying the reassuring force of centrifugation, and then allowing freedom and chance to intervene as I add coils of varying clays and hand-build in layers. Every fissure, crack and covolution tells a story; every texture and colour connects to a visceral memory/

some landscape vessels are reduction fired (in a gas kiln) to enrich the glazes and slips; others are barrel fired in my garden. Every tree vessel is one of a kind, one of land, one with nature/