My new large scale sculptural ceramics have been partly influenced by the effect of the pandemic on both people and places. All of the work seeks to portray elements of one or more of the following: exasperation, concealment, migration, abandonment and the seasons. The stoneware, sculptural ceramic forms are developed from my fascination with the negative spaces observed within natural landscapes, especially between the bare branches of trees and the stems of plants. These forms themselves can become the catalyst for further ceramic pieces, utilizing the new negative spaces left behind when the design is cut from the slab. Each piece is unique, and is hand built using stoneware clay. The surfaces, in parts are scored, impressed and at times broken. Applied decoration is textural and painterly, using a limited under-glaze palette, over a dry stoneware glaze in-order to create a painting on a ceramic, three-dimensional canvas.