I am a designer-maker working in ceramics. I have an MA Design: Craft from Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked as a professional illustrator. I now use my illustration skills to carve and model my drawings into clay. From these carvings I create my own plaster moulds and slip cast each piece in either porcelain or parian clay from the moulds. 

I work to raise awareness of the conservation status of red-list British bird species, species which are threatened. As a keen birdwatcher I have seen the decline in bird numbers first-hand, since I was a child in the 1960s. I reference the traditional processes employed in Wedgwood’s Jasperware, combining sprigged work with clean contemporary shapes. My images rely on the visual similarity of fossils to the low relief of ceramics sprigs, creating a metaphor for the threat to our native birds’ existence.