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Based on animals, inspiration comes from East End dogs, children's books, museums and animals observed at the zoo. I am also very influenced by eighteenth and nineteenth century Staffordshire pots.
All the work is hand built in stoneware, using pinch pots for bodies with limbs and details modelled or built up with coils or slabs. After biscuit firing they are painted with a range of under glaze colours, oxides and glazes and then fired to 1220° centigrade.
Education and beyond
I trained as a sculptor at Exeter College of Art, 1967-1970, and after taking a postgraduate teaching certificate I taught at a number of East London secondary schools, becoming Head of Art and Sixth Form at George Greens' School on the Isle of Dogs. After my second child I left teaching and set up a ceramic workshop in 1984, offering classes to adults and children and producing my own work for shops, galleries and private commissions.
Current outlets
The Art House, North St, Westbourne, Emsworth, Hants PO 10 8SN
Eccentrics, 3-5 Fortis Green Road, Muswell Hill, London N10 3HP
Webbs Road Fine Art, 1 Burland Road, SW11 6SA
Goose Gallery, The Old Dairy, Milton on Stour, Dorset, SP8 5PX
Mikell Gallery, 43 Lion St. Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, HR3 5AA
Berndes, 123-126 High St, Ongar, Essex, CM5 9JH
Jam Gallery, Arundel, W. Sussex
The Cockatoo, 39 High St, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4QA
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