I make functional pottery, mostly using the wheel. I include wild clay that I dig up from rivers around Sheffield, which I add to the clay body and to the glazes. The inclusion of local clay grounds the pots in the landscape which has become my home.

I like to stretch the clay to explore its plasticity, capturing this in the firing process when it is cooked rigid. I have a fondness for spirals, which shape my cups as I love the way the fingers fit into them.

Most of what I make is thrown on the wheel but I do enjoy some hand-building. Surface techniques, such as fluting and faceting, are really important processes for me. They allow me to form a tactile dialogue with the piece in a more thoughtful way after the initial fast forming on the wheel.

I fire in reduction in a gas kiln, and occasionally wood-fire in a kiln in the Peak District. I use a limited pallet of glazes, but mostly explore Shino glazes, adding wild clay and spraying with wood ash. I enjoy the lively surfaces and intense iron speckles that occur, in an often unpredictable fashion, when firing with a flame.