FIGURES
Lucio Fontana | Ellsworth Kelly | Suzan Frecon | Josef Albers | Lawrence Calver | Lee Krasner | Cy Twombly | Giorgio Morandi | Barbara Hepworth | Henry Moore | Constantin Brâncuși | Isamu Noguchi | Richard Serra | Franz Kline | Ben Nicholson | Ad Reinhardt | Gerhard Richter | William Scott | David Nash | Richard Long | Carl Andre
COLOUR & TONEFabric, Textiles, Texture:
Outside of ceramics, the greatest passion that follows is textile and fabric. Fibre, material, in particular that of natural and artisanal processes that can bring out texture from weaving and harvesting processes.
How a roll of fabric composed of earthly material can create silhouette for the body whilst offering functionality of warmth/cooling or other considered performative properties to enhance our lifestyles.
Tonality:
Naturally taken swatches from elements of the world that surround us, we’ve utilised as a form of translating to mood / emotion, without even saying a word - incredibly powerful tool of communication. Attaining outcomes from dying, staining and mixing earthly material to attain particular light or dark colourings to our environments and our objects.
Specificity:
Specificity is where colour becomes a feeling and I have been in denial about how deeply I have always felt about colour. Joking with a friend that we could talk for 3 hours on the colour green. But these aren’t just visual choices, they’re emotional ones.
In my practice, I spend as much time listening to colour as I do applying it. A small shift from an harsh-white to a soft beige - a dusting of warmth in a neutral palette can be just enough to change the way a piece holds itself.
Contrast:
Contrast is a theme that I have always held in the highest regard, a list of examples almost too long to fathom. I find such charm in colliding opposing ideals and seeing where the outcomes can take you & seeing it in life.
Light:
dancing shadows / angles of leaves and trees / movement throughout the day from the sun / golden hour
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LANDSCAPEMonoliths
Stone
Terrain
Erosion
PRINCIPLESSimplicity:
All my work is rooted in simplicity—both as a visual language and a way of living. Making pottery that invites stillness and guided by mindful presence.
Each piece is intentionally pared back, allowing form, texture, and clay to speak without excess.
Abstraction:
With simplicity comes abstraction. Again, narrowing down elements to their bare essential principles. Being particularly fond of the striking figures of Ellsworth Kelly’s work. Along with the incredible shapes that form figures for the Still Life’s of William Scott. Seeing the abstract expressionists of the mid century as the pinnacle of punk figures - to break moulds of tradition and tearing up original ideals.
Collage (within urban landscape):
Discovering a fascination with the striking layers of billboards and posters where the multiple tears, colours and elements from countless years of change & adaptation.
The shapes and patterns of the botched patchwork repairs of pavement and roads from damage and potholes. An often broad range of texture, colour and patterns that build an almost colossal abstract canvas.
‘Expressionism’:
The act & performance of making - itself. Channeling energy from the process into the works - the pioneering influence of Jackson Pollock.
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HISTORYPrimitive Ideology & Processes:
Age / Patina:
Physicality of Books:
Artempo:
‘Where time becomes art’
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CULTURAL Ikebana:
Kintsugi:
Previous centuries headwear: ‘Dutch Whaling Muts’ (17th century)
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SPIRITUAL