Selected Works
Wheel-thrown forms, carved and pierced to the very limit of what clay can bear. Many of these pieces evoke the veins of a leaf, the flight of a bird or the tracery of a cathedral window — work where the negative space outweighs the clay, and light and shadow become part of the piece itself.
Inspired by leaf skeletons — fragile in appearance, remarkably tough. Gold to the core.
Large shallow platter after the rose window of Amiens Cathedral; made to hang on a wall.
After Gaudí’s organic doors at Casa Milà, Barcelona.
Inspired by the brambles of the fells around Ambleside, England’s Lake District.
Intricately pierced vessel, made for dried flowers.
Each opening carved and hand-painted. 30 cm diameter.
Hand-pierced vessel.
Deep white bowl pierced with cathedral-window tracery.
Hand-pierced centrepiece.
Pierced bowl, powder blue within, white without.
Hand-pierced magnolia-flower bowl.
Porcelain, glazed by ash and flame in a wood-fired kiln.
Small bowl, each opening cut by hand.
Tealight lantern inspired by the Alhambra, Granada; casts patterned shadow across the room.
Tealight lantern, pierced hole by hole.
Carved from a single form; throws a floral pattern across the ceiling.
Tall, narrow-necked vase.
Tall, narrow-necked vase with pierced collar.
Bud vase sized for a clutch of wildflowers.