The hand built ceramic vessels are made in my backyard studio. The works are a response to the local urban landscape of Adelaide South Australia traversed on my daily dog walks. I am attracted to found objects overlooked or discarded and incidental objects — fragments shaped by use rather than intention. These found forms often irregular and incomplete activate unconscious response and become my visual triggers. I collect seed pods/Australian flora/eucalyptus bark for reference of shape/colour/form. I sometimes use them as ‘stamps’ to ‘decorate’ the surface of the pot by pressing patterns into the drying clay as the vessel evolves.

My vessels are formed using hand coiled Bennetts Terracotta filtered clay, underglaze and oxides.