I am a ceramic artist/ sculptor and a tutor. 

 

Before I left university, I was offered an exhibition, a position teaching ceramics and also access to a making space with support from an established artist to create large scale work. The making space was very exciting, I felt very honoured to be asked, but it wasn't a paid position and I couldn't make that work so​ I spent the next few years making and exhibiting my own work, teaching ceramics as well as designing and running creative workshops within the community using various materials.

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After a few years I became a Digswell Arts Trust Fellow, giving me access to a subsidised studio and the collective knowledge of 15 other artists which is were I finally realised I wasn't making it up when I wrote 'artist' as my occupation on my passport.  I grew a lot in that space and the next years were spent exhibiting, making and working together as well as teaching.

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Being around creative and passionate people definitely gave me the confidence to make braver work and the exhibition with them at Courtyard Arts is one that I felt was most successful.

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During this time, Digswell Arts Trust asked me to set up Digswell Ceramics Community in the main workshop of the studio space. It was a huge growth period.

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My community work included being an artist in residence for festivals, painting murals with MIND, art and pottery clubs for children and special small group sessions for Oasis and drug rehab centres as well as workshops for galleries but for the last 15 years I have focused on ceramics.

 

I worked for The University of Hertfordshire, Oaklands College, Courtyard Arts, Sele School before setting up my own ceramic studios. Clay is the language I understand and find the easiest to  communicate in.

In Letchworth, with a lot of support, I started a beautiful and thriving ceramics facility called Made with Clay studio in the historic Vasanta Hall and this is my full time job now. This is where I get to work with people I love, with the material I am still passionate about and to share this with lots of other people who also love clay. It's great.

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There isn't a lot of spare time to exhibit or sell and it isn't something I feel the need to do at the moment, but  I am both making ceramics and painting in my own time. The studio is established and we have new apprentices in training so I hope this will lead to more time to focus on my own creativity in the future, because it makes me happy.

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My last exhibition was with the artists from Digswell Arts Trust in 2018, and although I sell my work, I don't take commissions.