I’m interested in how words effect an image and vice versa in art. I’m also applying some of my learnings from poetry - such as letting the work form itself. Although, of course, looking back, every mark, every word has been a decision, conscious or not. Some of the recent work has been about giving in to chance, letting a pot be decorated by fire and smoke in smoke firing. I have a fascination with rubbing back, abrasion, erosion. Something that has developed with my recent working with oxides and slips on clay.
I’m often inspired by relationships, current situations, things overheard, things misheard. As a creative I have put words and images together all my working life, and have been thinking about how this could apply to art, using parts of poems, words in current usage in social media etc. Writing led me to poetry, poetry taught me something about creating in clay, and clay re-ignited my interest in surfaces, and ultimately, in painting, and recently monoprinting. The circle is completing.