I have loved creating with my hands for as long as I can remember.  I have early memories of making mud pies and lining them up along the fence railings of my childhood home.  Today I feel the same joy I felt as a child when I am working with clay and find it incredibly grounding, soothing and peaceful.

My life has been filled with much love, but also trauma and grief. My husband and I have 6 children and we have had a very full and busy family life to date. Our first daughter was born with profound disabilities, we went on to have two boys and then we were blessed with triplet daughters. This was shortly followed by the death of our eldest daughter at age eight. Five years later after contracting a virus, I became bed bound and unable to participate in life with ME/CFS, a chronic and life robbing illness, this lasted at its worst for 12 years. It has not been an easy journey. These experiences have had a profound impact on me both emotionally and physically and led me to a transition of a deep inward healing process.

Now, being able to return to working with clay again after the 12 years away, and living for so long thinking it would never be possible again, I find myself incredibly grateful. While I still live with moderate ME/CFS, the huge improvement in my health over the past 3 years has been wonderful and this journey is now the inspiration for my new work. As souls, we are filled with a complex array of feelings and emotions which interconnect with our human body. I am interested in exploring and expressing the feelings we carry inside of ourselves and examining ways of reflecting the inner self dialogue along with the external face we present to the world.

I am drawn to using Porcelain clay for both its strength and fragility and the way in which it brings glazes to life offering depth and contrast. My sculptural pieces are hand built with porcelain paper clay, often with the addition of nichrome wire. I use various slips, oxides and glazes to finish the surfaces.