I am a slipware potter working from my garden studio in Edinburgh. I make colourful slipware pots for the kitchen and the table.

I aim to make useful and beautiful pots which encourage people to enjoy the small daily comforts of hand-crafted objects in the sharing of a pot of tea or a home cooked meal with friends and family.

Most of my work is thrown on a pottery wheel. A few pieces, like myquirky toast racks, are made by handbuilding with slabs of clay. I use red earthenware clay which I coat in a creamy slip and then decorate with coloured slips, oxides and glazes.

Many of my pieces are decorated with the humble hedgerow plants which brighten our days and herald the changing of seasons. These popular plants and berries evoke for methe nostalgic, simple pleasures of connection to nature and growing, cooking, foraging and preserving food.

I came to ceramics by a round-about route via a background in Social Anthropology and a decade working for human rights and social justice charities. In 2006-9 I trained as an assistant to Bärbel Dister at Cromarty Pottery in the Scottish Highlands.

My work is available from this site through occasional online shop updates and from stockists. I also take part in exhibitions and events and undertake commissions.