Welcome to my gallery. Entrez voir ce que je fais!
Picture Gaspesie’s vast sky and icy sea in Quebec, where we gathered driftwood; Fiji’s wildly colourful sunsets and teeming life that inspired my shapes; or the often soaked familiar UK commons where I walk my dog, the backdrop to my pottery practice.
Inspiration
Platter with a blue dot. Terracotta clay and pine needles
Bracelets
Seashell. Moebius strip no. 1.
Seashell. Moebus strip no.2.
Seashell. Moebius strip no. 3. With beads.
Basket with driftwood collected in Gaspesie, Quebec. They are wonderfully soft and resemble little birds or fish.
Pottery and driftwood. The whale.
Driftwood and pine needles, a sighting of the Loch Ness monster?
Basket with beetles wings.
Green beads inside and out.
Experimenting with the wheat stitch.
Seeds from Fiji, beads recycled from an old shirt.
Inspired by the sharp rains in Fiji.
Coiling in and out.
The hedgehog. Instead of tucking the end of the pine needles in the coil, they are left to stick out. Very fiddly to stitch!
Fijian basket, the lighter rows are coiled with the softer fibres of the sasa brooms people use there. They are handmade from the coconut leaf spines.
Fijian coconut husk.
Fijian coconut husk with found shells and seaweed on seaside at low tide.
Small beaded basket. Fijian starry night.
Blue. Popcorn stitch.
The beehive.
Pinched pot with pine needles.
Small rounded shape.
Stoneware with lid.
Pottery base with pine needles.
Three little pots, 'pods'. Terracotta with pine needles.
Fijian shells imprints.
Three little terracotta thumbpots, with some free style weaving.
Stoneware with pine needles.
Stoneware, pine needles, some with lids.
Wavy terracotta bases with pine needles.
Lampshade with pine needles.
Wall hanging with found bits and pieces.
Sun catcher.
Not round shape (very difficult to do!) wall hanging, sad fish driftwood.
Necklace.
Bracelet.
Coasters with a ceramic centre.