I start by looking at the built environment, sourcing the unintentional beauty in form, texture and colour that can be found in hidden places, such as a brick encased within a wall. It’s about reclaiming these iconic features, elevating them to a new level of function and aesthetic value.

Ceramics production is labour and energy intensive. From start to finish, the pottery in Stoke-On-Trent handmakes everything from the plaster moulds to casting and glazing the finished wears in colour. Each item needs to be fired in an electric kiln twice, the first transforms clay into a ceramic body and the second turns the powdery glaze material into a glass-like surface when in contact with high temperature. To counter high production costs, it’s crucial my designs are timeless in style and made to last a lifetime. It’s a rejection of fast-fashion and throw-away culture. The importance is sustaining these traditional skills, past on to future generations and continued in factories and workshops in the area.

My products sit between Art and Design. Craft is the definition I like because they are utilitarian in function but the visual language is highly creative. I try and encapsulate links between contrasting topics such as the old and new, beauty in the unintentional, the iconic and symbolic nature of objects and the juxtaposition in the home.

Marcel Duchamp paved the way forward with the idea that Art is in the eye of the beholder and that removing an object from its usual environment can make us question it’s meaning. The connotation I place with an object may be different to someone else so keeping the finished designs simple in a minimal sense leaves the individual to adopt their own connection. My London Brick Vase or Leeds Brick Vase for example is a little piece of the city for the person to cherish and take home. It can present ideas about street art where artists use brick walls like canvases or could be used to mark the occasion of buying a house.

Colour is subjective of the moods we feel, the level of light that fills a space and the energy or serenity it can bring. If colour is as diverse as life then variety is the spice.

I often take inspiration from Street Art where I favour bright colours set against a neutral backdrop. This adds an injection of colour to an interior that really pops when used in combination with other home-ware, artworks, artefacts and furnishings. They can be easily interchanged as collections grow to reflect the people that inhabit the space