Art Practice
Image by Laura Martinez
My practice explores how materials hold memory across time, connecting us to mortality through touch and making.
I work with foraged clay, handmade charcoal, and porcelain. My decade working in bronze patination taught me how materials transform through fire and chemistry - these alchemical processes inform how I approach clay as something that remembers.
I often work with eyes closed to access what sight cannot reach. Current work includes touch drawings of Roman face pots at Colchester Museum, investigating whether ancient touch can be communicated across two thousand years. I forage clays from London - excavated earth carrying its own history. I burnish clay into mirrors, make memorial vessels and ritual bowls.
Each piece invites intimate contemplation through touch - meant to be held, used, and lived with.
