After five years of working as a primary school teacher, I handed in my notice to go travelling around Central America for a year, but then two weeks later COVID struck and we went into lock down, needless to say we didn’t make it to Mexico that year and I had to reassess my career options! But there was most definitely a plus side, having a break from teaching made me realise that although I loved some parts of it, it had also made me incredibly stressed and anxious, so I decided to try doing what I loved full-time and focused on my creative side. I’d always made ceramics, but now I finally had the chance to really invest in what I most loved doing and try to make a career out of it. I tutored and freelanced as an assistant stylist on interior shoots to keep the lights whilst I developed my ceramics.

To my delight (and quite honestly amazement), for the last year and half I have been working full-time for myself and developing my practice with such an amazing community of followers.

A huge inspiration for my work is Charleston House, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. A house full of hand painted mantels, walls and doorways each showing signs of the makers paint brush strokes, hand sewn lampshades with visible wobbly stitching and ceramic pendant lampshades with fingerprint indents of it's maker, all completely unique, personal, expressive and free flow. The freshness, whimsical nature of the artwork, makes it fun and free from pretence.