My interest is in exploring ways of building structural forms in ceramics. Many ideas for the forms come from architecture while the inherent organic quality of the clay always brings the work back to soft forms more reminiscent of biological and natural things. In my ceramic work these interests reappear as ever-changing associations to man-made and natural objects. It is in the back and forth between the natural and artificial or an organic cellular type of growth and man-made structures that my work finds its meaning.

My work is made from porcelain and porcelain paper-clay. I begin by combining thrown forms into a basic shape and then adding bands of clay to the exterior creating an armature in reverse on the outside of the form. I then cut away some of the underlying form and begin adding to the bands with paper-clay. The paper-clay allows for both strength and lightness so the piece can be built up without collapsing.