Shinrin-yoku  Forest Bathing Series

Stoneware, Midfired, Combination of Handbuilt and Thrown Pieces

Layered slips, engobes, underglazes and lava glazes 2022

For as long as I can remember, the natural world has been a place of peace and renewal. There is a certain calm to being in the landscape, a desire to be quiet and listen to the changes in nature, to feel the seasons, the time and the temperature of the day, and know that this moment will never resonate exactly the same way again.

The mycelial network of the forest floor allows for a special type of cell-to-cell communication, it’s a working collaborative structure which allows the wider plant community to help each other thrive. All the way through the vegetation through the canopies and the ether between.

I consider the natural world not only a part of us as human beings, but also an connection, and reflection of our own inner-self within the universe, helping us to remember where we come from

My ceramic pieces come from those memories in the landscape observing the natural beauty and profound complexity of nature around me. The point between recognition of the landscape, and the sensed experience of it, To find and feel the energy of the pieces 

The abstraction allows for a layering of meaning that can be experienced in unison, the vessels surface therefore is never static, with an element of spirit, too. 

We only ever have this moment , what is left behind us, is a dream