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I am drawn to clay for its ability to be formed and manipulated by the human hand. I love how its surface can carry marks, imprints and traces that tell a story, give clues and evoke feeling, which once fired become permanent forever.

‘VAGOR- To wander, to roam.’

‍(2025-Present) This body of work is informed by the landscape surrounding the Black Mountains, where I grew up and near Hereford where I currently live. I love this wild, mysterious and rural place that is steeped in history, holding many stories about the past and people’s lives. I spend a lot of time here walking and exploring, seeking out old places, following old drovers’ routes and imagining past lives lived in long derelict farms and buildings. I love the feeling of the past and how the space it occupies is held by the landscape surrounding it, how it is contained by and interwoven with contemporary rural life.

My work explores the boundary between the past and the present and between nature and human impact on this rural landscape. This boundary is not always clear cut but interwoven, forming a new identity and dialogue of its own.

The surface and form of my work is inspired by what I have seen whilst out in the landscape as well as the experience of walking through and being within these old spaces. I work with slabs of clay, creating textured, drawn, painted and monoprinted surfaces before tearing and cutting these up to construct slab-built forms. As I build, I observe the work and am reminded of places I have been to and objects I have seen. Through making I seek to explore my relationship to my surroundings and to capture the excitement and intrigue I feel when I’m out in this landscape.‍ ‍