The elements that shape my work are drawn from memories of long, hot summers spent on my Grandma’s farm in Missouri – growing up on the Great Plains , home of big skies, swaying fields of corn and extreme weather. The different colours reflected in the changing seasons remains a constant point of reference in my work. Over the last twenty years, my primary influence has been a contrasting landscape to my childhood; a granite landscape, softened by the ever changing colour, shape and movement of sea and sand on the small island of Jersey .

The 4th of July will be the start of the sixth year of running my own workshop. My passion for clay has not waned and my journey continues. I have begun to share my knowledge by teaching a number of ceramics courses entitled ‘Strictly Throwing’ at the College of Higher Education in Jersey which is affiliated to the University of Plymouth.
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