I got hooked on pottery when I studied A level art and craft at Boston college in Lincolnshire. I had a studio all to myself for two years and was able to spend time just enjoying playing with clay. I went on to do a teaching degree at The University of Gloucestershire, meeting people who were to be a great influence on me later, namely Mick Casson and Jerry Fryman. After teaching for three years I met Mike Goddard and started throwing pots in my conservatory at home. Things gradually expanded to a studio in Little Bentley, and then shrunk down again to fit in the studio in our back garden, and have now expanded again to a studio at Freston just outside Ipswich.
My work has always been stoneware based with a heavy Chinese and Japanese influence both in form and glaze. I have focused on reduction fired stoneware and raku pottery for the past 32 years. Recently I have had more time to focus on a more definite direction in my work. Using the reduction firing and glazes I have and am aiming to be more decorative in my style and influenced by the landscape in which I have lived for the past three decades.
