Hello!
Since leaving Art School in 2001, my creative work was put aside while I focused on working in a career in Human Resources. When my husband and I moved to Singapore in 2014, I found myself with a lot of time on my hands and began to re-discover my love of colour and working with my hands. I picked up weaving, making heavily textured wall-hangings and I quickly picked up hand-spinning yarn. By 2020, I was spinning and selling yarn as a full-time small business, with my daughter at home.
My success as a textile artist in the last few years gave me the confidence to pursue my dream of making ceramics and in 2022, just after my 40th birthday I took the plunge and took some lessons at a local ceramics studio. I quickly bought a wheel and a kiln, turning my textile studio on it’s head and set up a space where I could work on my pottery full-time.
As an artist, my work has always been heavily inspired by nature
Photography has been a keen passion of mine since a very young age and I actually use it now as a way to experiment with colours, styling, textures and shapes, almost like an artist might use a sketch book. I find it useful to have a creative hobby that I can ‘play’ with before getting to ‘work’ in the studio. I love finding ways to incorporate and translate the romance of florals & dappled sunlight into my work.
Working on a ‘small batch’ scale has always been important to me in more ways than one. It helps me retain my independence as a creative, it helps me stay flexible when balancing my other life-commitments and most importantly, lets me keep quality at the forefront of anything I put out into your hands!