Since I became interested in Pottery in 2020 I have been drawn naturally to the Potters: Phil Rogers, Jim Malone, Svend Bayer and Mike Dodd - all of whom, little did I know then, used Ash Glazes extensively in their work. In the four-year period since that time I …

This journal was written during the Winter of 2020/21 and outlines my journey from total clay novice to completing my first body of work. Herein is an objective outline of the initial learning processes for a beginner thrower and more broadly a representation of w…

John Hudson was at his pottery workshop when I arrived. To get there from John's house I had to pass through a garden-centre. John's pottery is on the edge of this local garden-centre which was once his Father's business. Both garden-centre and pottery are in Mirf…

Summer has arrived! The budding branches are in full leaf and it seems I am surrounded by a jungle when I go for a walk in my home woodlands now. Grasses and ground plants have burst forth so that previously muddy naked trails now teem with movement, and life. I’m…

Its March of 2022 already and in the UK its starting to feel like Spring is just around the corner. My partner Kristina has been bringing fallen branches (collected from the nearby woodland) into the house to place in a handmade jug or bottle thereby enlivening th…