About me

Lamp with fish

Lamp detail

Necklaces and earrings

Trained at the Central School of Art, London,  with a BA degree in Ceramics, since leaving college I have been working with coloured clays, as well as teaching.

I start with a white clay from the UK, which I colour with ceramic body stains. Most of my pots are hand-built using slab technique and the decorations are done by inlaying contrasting coloured clays at the leather hard stage.

When dry, the pots are sanded down and bisque fired, and afterwards small details are painted with underglazes, and then sprayed with a Dora Billington alumina matt glaze, and fired to 1120.

I like the soft, satiny finish which keeps the work from becoming too garish.

This way of working means that the decoration and the making process are one and the same, and it eliminates the conundrum of how to decorate a piece, once it is bisque fired.

As well as the inlaid pieces, since living in Hungary I have also started decorating with underglaze paints and a transparent shiny glaze,  and I like to be able to offer these less labour-intensive and therefore less expensive, pieces (such as the lamps, necklaces and earrrings)  at design markets and fairs.

I enjoy the balance of doing my own ceramics as well as teaching, and it is a symbiotic experience where I hope to enthuse my students with the endless possibilites of this wonderful  medium, and they in turn inspire me with their enthusiasm and fresh outlook.

Wall piece

Square dish