Ceramics is my second career but was always my first love.  

After several years spent working in publishing, having children set me free to play with clay again. Italy is one of my abiding passions and seeing Tuscan country lanes alive with fireflies on a hot June night inspired me to develop my lighting ideas.  Fairy lights always made me smile and I never did like taking them down after Christmas, so my aim has been to create lighting that adds a similar sensual pleasure to both interior and garden spaces.  

Working with press moulds in white stoneware and more recently slip-cast and thrown porcelain, I experiment with hole patterns using a variety of mostly home made tools, firing to very high temperatures so that the porcelain becomes translucent and the stoneware robust and frost-proof.  Using simple, classic shapes like spheres and cubes, lighting them from within with either electric fittings or candles, the piercings act as pinhole projectors casting patterns of light onto surrounding surfaces.  

I am particularly in love with the look and feel of porcelain at the moment and would be happy to spend the rest of my days stretching, poking, twisting and shaping this magically pure material.