I am a potter based in the Welsh Marches in rural north Herefordshire, making wheel-thrown and hand decorated stoneware pots. My work is inspired by the natural beauty of the land and sea I have experienced in my time living on the coast, in the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland and now in Herefordshire. I throw to have pots to decorate and unapologetically make two contrasting styles work..The glazed work representing my view of the Scottish surf are full of texture, colour and glistening glazes. By contrast my slipware pots use slips in a painterly fashion or I add hand cut stencils and sgraffito to add more detail, imagery and texture to the work. The countryside collection is rooted in Herefordshire to evoke a sense of the land that is at the heart of rural life, whereas as my Sea collection reflects life in and on the sea. Using throwing slip and coloured slips together with glazes applied in interesting layers, I look to capture the energy, flow and transitions in colour and texture that nature's palette offers us. I live in a former dairy farm which is located on top of an historic monument; the Roman town of Bravinium. These two facts have influenced some of the shapes I have developed for my pottery such as my milk churn pots in honour of the former dairy and some of my classic pottery forms and exaggerated loop handled jug in reference to Roman pottery.