✷ CLAY//EARTH ✷

Clay is beautifully forgiving and harsh at the same time, I feel as if I am at it's mercy, learning to be patient while pushing the boundaries and expectations. I have experimented with a mixture of bought/gifted processed clays and foraged wild clays, using kilns, pit-fires and wood-burners, as well as creating sculptures never intended to be fired, but to be returned to the earth once they came.

In the years leading up to working with clay, I had been burying bundles of drawings, text and naturally dyed fabric, and over time returning to them to dig up. The beautiful and unpredictable changes which happened to the materials were inspiring. Have a look at the INSTILLATIONS page to see this work.

Using clay I have often return to making seed pod sculptures, a reoccurring object/idea within my practice.

✹ EARTH ✹

✹ clay beads ✹

Making clay beads is something I started doing in winter 2023. I create the beads from a mixture of clays, slowly dry them over the wood burner (essentially bisk firing them), put them in a tin with combustable materials and place them in the fire for a couple of days to fire them.

I found this process calming, a way to get to know the clays that I have foraged and a lovely thing to be doing sat by the fire on cold dark days. An example of how my practice changes and shifts with the seasons.