Initially I was a Geologist, specialising in platinum exploration, with a keen interest in Archaeology, ship wrecked fragments and marine-life. This was influenced by my father and grandfather who collected Ming fragments from their home beaches of South Africa and had a love of Ottoman and Byzantine art and craft.

Having spent much of my childhood admiring reconstructed pottery in glass cases, I became intrigued by the skill of piecing together complex vessels and filling in the missing sections.  My work takes a twist on these found fragments, exploring the contact between buried pottery and the enveloping sea life and sediment in which they are found.  Using clay to re-cement mass produced objects, I transform them back into unique crafted offspring.  This process can be repeated several times with multiple firings. 

I relate my processes back to Geology, plate tectonics and continental drift. As with my pieces the oldest sections, (such as the Earth’s crust and the pottery fragments) can be found at the heart. At the boundaries, new material is constantly added, taken away, or metamorphosed into something new.  This provides me is an endless source of inspiration to drive my work and ideas.