"What I am looking for in my work with 'clay and fire' lies in their own essential beauty and the play between them -a beauty subjective , difficult to define, control or repeat -something to do with chance coincidence. My methods are as simple / direct as possible where chance has space to surprise. This leads me along a narrow ridge between my will and that of the material".

I make coil/slab-built Stoneware"Trompe-l'œil" objects, coloured with kaolin slips all wood-fired in a 6 ku/m chamber kiln. They give the idea of simple bowls and jars, of a tradition that has given me a lifelong fascination, but take them into another space of the mind.

ever tried
ever failed
never mind try again
fail beautifully

("fail better" S.Beckett)