I'm a potter, printmaker and facilitator based in Manchester, where I make work in a community studio in Trafford.

I use my rural Yorkshire upbringing and subsequent adaptation to city life as a lens to interrogate our concepts of ‘natural’ landscapes. Combining clay, printing, and illustration, I explore feelings of existential curiosity towards our evolving landscapes: Transferring slips and inks onto hand-built vessels, I create pieces that teeter on the boundary between the rural and industrial, the domestic and the wild. I utilise imagery such as pylons, turbines, and cranes, but also chairs, fabric and fields to represent the point at which these seemingly contrasting planes cross over, interrupt and collapse into the ordinary.

There is a strong connection between the materials I work in and the subject matter they depict - l love working with found clays and exploring their unique, earthy properties. I use these as slips to print my designs onto clay slabs, before turning them into vessels.

I juggle my independent practice alongside working freelance in the community arts, engaging creatively with local people on a weekly basis.