Before moving into fine art and ceramics, I worked for 15 years creating dance installation, performance and film. Specialising in improvisation, my works were rooted in spontaneous composition - the work continuously unfolding into the present moment. Working in clay has been a natural evolution - the tactility and immediacy of the material resonating with my background in improvisation and dance.

Whilst the first chapter of my life was rooted in finding expression and presence through movement, the second chapter is about allowing more stillness and silence through a growing interest and commitment to Zen and meditation practice. Letting go of always ‘doing’ to sometimes just ‘being’ has given clarity to my arts practice and has led to creating objects that, for varying lengths of time, exist in the world - a departure from the ephemeral, transient nature of dance.

The natural world, and my relationship to it, remain my constant focus.