Welcome…

In my textile and clay practices, I create various series of works, releasing the materials’ innate healing properties. This allows me to process experiences, which are sometimes more easily expressed through making rather than talking.
Some themes relate to pivotal moments in my personal narrative, and I hope that the viewer can find some part of their story in my works too, from  light-hearted to contemplative.

To know oneself is a timeless occupation for humans, yet there is equal importance in allowing the periods of reflection to help us penetrate the many layers below the face we present to the world.

About:

I live and work in the Brecon Beacons/Bannau Brycheiniog, as an artist, curator and tutor with my husband, and various rescue animals, and I am a mother to three grown up daughters.

My family has a long history in artistic and healing traditions, and I am very happy to be continuing this through my work as an artist and facilitator - it is also part of my strategy in working with my health conditions and disabilities.

Creativity has ebbed and flowed throughout my life, where previously circumstances had distanced it from me, I re-engaged with my creative practice following the escape from a DV situation, and a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, back in 2011, and another in 2023.
I feel so lucky to be able to work daily with my creative practice, and my other projects, which you can read more about here.

The wool I use is sourced locally, or from ethical smallholders and suppliers in Britain. Using local wool creates a link between myself and the landscape, giving provenance to the fleece used.
I work with a variety of clays, mainly handbuilding abstract pieces, and exploring with texture and layers.

My textile work is created in my studio at home, and my clay work is created in my pottery studio; in both spaces I make a variety of pieces for galleries, projects and commissions.
My work is influenced by cycles, seasons and stories, as well as the Welsh mountains surrounding me, and the ancient stories that dwell within them.

As a qualified tutor and artist, I love to teach as well as create, and run many workshops across Wales, and parts of the UK. You can visit the Workshops page to find out more. You can also arrange your own workshop dates, and order kits, by emailing me.

In September 2022 I enrolled on an MA in Contempory Crafts at Hereford College of Arts, which is thoroughly thought provoking and enormously rewarding. During 2023 I had to take an interruption of studies due to another cancer diagnosis and assocuated surgeries and treatent - I am very excited about completing this degree in January 2026!