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Drawing on experiences from my own life, my art practice is the place where feelings, imaginings, explorations, sensations, stories, the real and beyond real, come together, interact and unfold. In my creative process, clay acts like a tactile canvas. I use it as a drawing surface, drawing medium and sculptural material. The firing processes used are a variety of low-fire sawdust and pit or black firing techniques
These types of firings are very immediate, transformative processes which leave a lot to chance, the fire having the final influence on how the work materialises. The mystery contained in these techniques, the unseen magic that occurs in the darkness of the sealed kiln, is what excites me about this process and what I feel captures something of the unknown and ungraspable. For even to me, the artist, when the work comes out of the kiln it is changed, transported to a new context and new meaning, it has a story all of its own.
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Through my arts practice I seek to empower the sensate realm and the world of the unseen, the unexplainable and unknown. Experiences that mark and change me, yet remain beyond my articulation, only residing as subtleties of the sensate body. An example of this is the body of work, Ease. In this work I related emotional and bodily sensations to patterns, simplicities and movements I observe in nature: The rose bloom losing its petals to the wind, turning to seed and new bloom and the falling of a leaf from a tree. |
