I am a ceramic print artist making decorative objects that celebrate everyday encounters and commemorate moments in time. I aim to capture the ephemeral and fleeting and I use print and photography as a vehicle to create these narratives in my ceramic objects. The print and glaze are manipulated and overlaid in the making process to create rich surfaces that are integrated into the forms. I am isolating and embedding views, elevating the everyday, creating stories and spaces in my objects.

As my current practice is a response to place I start with visits to an area, documenting detail and landscape to build up a library of material to use to describe my own experience. I then incorporate this unique visual language into a ceramic screen print which becomes ‘framed’ in an object. The references to form come from both the source material which I have collected and a continued interest in architectural details and enframements, such as ornamental cartouches.

My method of screen printing directly onto wet clay gives a unique life to the print, as the image continues to change and stretch as the object is formed. The screen printed surface stretches and cracks to reveal the clay body beneath it, fragmenting the image and creating a highly intricate printed surface. I also print into clay with textiles which can be seen in the piece Stretch. Once the pieces are fired I then enhance areas of the images with layers of glazes applied and the rubbed back to sit into the clay surfaces.