About the Artist

Artist's Statement

My hand-built stoneware pieces are inspired by the seashore, particularly the rugged coasts of north-west Scotland and the Outer Isles. I have always found something joyful in beach pebbles – to me they not only have shape and weight, but histories, characters and stories to tell. And I’m drawn always to the perfectly imperfect, the ones bearing dints and nicks, the abrasions and complexities born of their tumbling journey through life.

This is the intention of my ceramics, to echo those organic shapes, textures and colours found along the Scottish beaches of Scarista and Luskentyre, Redpoint and Mellon Udrigle, those treasure-filled seascapes and landscapes shaped by an alchemy of time, geology and the elements.

Following a career as a fashion journalist, magazine editor and non-fiction author, I have been making ceramics in Brighton and Gairloch for several years, taking inspiration from so much in the natural landscape - from sand ripples on the beach at Opinan, from the movement of kelp beneath the waterline at Loch Shieldaig, from the flash of a fresh-caught mackerel’s scales; or, most particularly, the view from a picnic rock at Eilean Tioram at Faraway Beach in Wester Ross, when, on a fine day, the turquoise bowl of the sea is girdled by the smudged mountains of Skye.