Artist's Statement

Originally from Yorkshire, I trained at Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art, and now live and work in Sussex.

I make hand built painterly vessel forms exploring a number of ideas and themes – landscapes, domestic interiors, seascapes etc. – through abstraction and symbolism, and through the use of colour, texture and mark making. Both drawing and painting inform the work. 

My work is in both private and public collections in Britain and abroad, including the Crafts Council collection and South East Arts.

I am the founder and head of the Ceramics Diploma course at City Lit College in central London.

Technical Information

The vessels are hand built using slabs if clay. The clay is a white stoneware body. The clay surfaces are drawn onto and incised into both before and after building.

Layers of colour are built up using slips, oxides, body stains, underglaze colours and glazes.
The work is fired to about 1150 degree C.

Background History

Born -  Sheffield ,Yorkshire
Manchester High School of Art
1972- 73     Rochdale College of Art
1973-76    Camberwell College of Art .BA Hons First Class
1976-79     Royal College of Art . MA R.C.A

Teaching
– 1983  Sidcup Arts Centre, Part time tutor
1983 – 1987 – Central London Institute, Tutor Coordinator, 0.5 Ceramics
1985 – 1990 – Portsmouth Polytechnic, Part time tutor on Sculpture degree course,
1987 – 1993 – The Surrey Institute, Part time tutor on Ceramics degree course
1990 – Visiting lecturer, University of Colorado, U.S.A.
1990 – 1993 – Goldsmith College, London University, Part time tutor, Ceramics
1987 – 2001 – City Lit London, 0.5 Tutor coordinator, Ceramics, head of Ceramics Diploma course
2001 – Present –  City Lit, London, Joint head of 3D Studies, head and founder of  the Ceramics Diploma course

Commissions
The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells
The Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, London
City of Leeds Art Galleries, installed at Lotherton Hall

Collections
Unilever PLC
Crafts Council, London
Leicestershire Schools Collection
South East Arts

Crafts Council selected maker.

Bibliography
Hamstead and Highgate News, Review of exhibition, 26/01/90
Arts review, exhibition review by Charles Hall, 26/01/90
“Telling Tales”, exhibition catalogue with essay by Pamela Johnson
A Dictionary of British Studio Potters, Pat Carter ( Scolar Press 1990)
HTV West “Scene” 1989
BBC Television, “    The Great Picture Chase”, 05/09/90
Painted Ceramics – Colour and Imagery in Clay, Brenda Pegrum. (Crowood, 1999)

Exhibition History

Solo Exhibitions
1981 - Cale Art, London
1983 - Liberty One – Off, London
1985 - Anatol Orient Gallery, London
1987 - Anatol Orient Gallery, London
        - Oriel 31 Gallery, Wales
1990 - Michaelson and Orient Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions
1978 - Royal College of Art, London
1980 - Mappin Gallery, Sheffield. “ The hidden spirit”
- Cale Art, London
- Portal Gallery, London
1982 - Amalgam Gallery, London
1983 - Jane Baum Gallery, New York, U.S.A
- Whitechapel Gallery, London “The Whitechapel open”
1984 - Seven Dials Gallery, London “Out of Clay”
Carmel College, Wallingford
1985 - On the Wall Gallery, Belfast
- Westminster Gallery, Boston , U.S.A
1986 - On the Wall Gallery, Belfast
1987 - Davies Memorial Gallery, Newton, Powys
1988 - Artsite Gallery, Bath. “Does it Pour”
- Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames. “Artists by themselves”
- Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
1989 - Galerie fur Englische Keramik, Sandhausen, Germany. “Change and Metaphor”
- Artsite Gallery, Bath. “Telling Tales”
1990 - Schloss Reinbek Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
- Edinburgh College of Art for the International Ceramics Academy
- Chicago International New Art Forms Exposition, U.S.A
1991 - Crafts Council, London. “Favourite things”
1992 - Leicester Schools Exhibition
- Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. “Sussex Open”
1993 - Crafts Council, London. “Strands on Contemporary Crafts”
- Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham and touring to 1995. “High Table”
1996 - Salford University
2000 - City Lit, London “New ceramics”
- Chichester Open Exhibition
- British Council Touring Exhibition of the Crafts Council Collection – Brazil
- Angus Suttie Memorial Exhibition , Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
- Anatol Orient, London
2007 - Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- Porthminster Gallery, St. Ives ,Cornwall
- Ceramics Now, London
2008 - Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art
- Orchard Gallery , St Ives, Cornwall
- European Makers Gallery, Amsterdam
- Beverve Gallery
- Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
- Angela Mellor Gallery, Ely
2009 - Lund Gallery, Yorkshire