Meet the Maker

I have a Fine Art degree specialising in sculpture, which gave me an early foundation in form, proportion and composition. After some years away from making I needed to find my way back to something creative so in 2017 I joined a pottery night class in Chester, touched clay for the first time and knew immediately it was what I’d been looking for.

I went onto complete a two year ceramics course at Warrington & The Vale Royal College in Winsford, one day a week, and haven’t stopped making since.

I make things I want to use myself. Everything in the Organics Collection lives in my own kitchen first. I’m drawn to functional work that’s contemporary and considered, designed to feel at home in a well thought out interior. Making is also, for me, a meditative process, the rhythm of it as important as the result.

I work from a small studio at the bottom of my garden in Chester, surrounded by nature. I’m not a fast maker. Each batch is small and considered, made slowly and with care rather than rushing to produce more.

Alongside my studio work I’ve taught pottery at a local primary school for seven years, working with children from prep to year 6 throughout the school year as well as a weekly class for their parents. Sharing the joy that clay gives me with other people is one of the best parts of my week.