I worked in broadcast television for over 30 years as an editor, director, and independent producer. After retiring in 2015, I returned to fulltime education studying art and ceramics, at Cardiff Met. University where I gained a first class BA (Hons) in ceramics.
I now live and work at my studio in the small Oxfordshire village of Fernham.
I was bought up on the rural coast of Devon during the time of great social, economic, and technical change; the 1950’s 60’s and 70’s. Coastal geography and my local rural environment are important issues to me and these themes are always somewhere to be seen in my work.
For many years I have been inspired by the seminal works of William Morris and William De Morgan. I have an affinity with Morris’s philosophy and connect with his respect for geographical identity. William Morris greatly admired the White Horse monument at nearby Uffington, and made annual visits there.
Creating my body of work entitled “White Horse Terrain”, I have taken Morris’s inspirational influence to consider the same geographic identity: the bucolic Oxfordshire countryside, where I have lived for the past 33 years, using the local historical iconic White Horse at Uffington Castle to celebrate the beauty of England’s pleasant land.
My body of work entitled “Time and Tide”, considers the beauty of our coastal environments. Through my creative interpretations; using clay bodies, glazes and pictorial representation, the work conveys the raw energy and dynamism of where sea meets land meets man; at our beautiful coastline. In the work “Sea moon” I have employed the language of sculpture combined with mimetic glazes to consider the sea’s relationship of tidal influences created by the phases of the moon.
My series of acrylic paintings “Time and Tide” reflects the nature of our coastal landscape, our relationship with it, and how both we and this beautiful environment are influenced by forces such as the phases of the moon, the draw of the ocean and the progress of time and tide. My body of paintings in the mediums of watercolour and acrylics explores themes of the coast and our relationship with this beautiful landscape.