As well as being about my own personal journey, it is about trying to recreate forms to find a sense of the land that I am living on. The textures that I see in the land around me, created by climate, erosion and the passage of animals and human beings, also develop naturally in the clay I use.

I have always preferred hand building with clay, initially by coiling. A problem with my shoulders in later life led to the development of the technique I now use. I start from a solid piece of clay and texture the surfaces as I stretch it from the inside.

I began wood firing partly because the electricity supply could not sustain a high-temperature firing. I built my own small kiln. The kiln naturally fires in light reduction so to achieve the heavy reduction of some of my work, I fire individual pieces in closed container saggars. This gives me a wide range of effects such as stone-like density, the grey and purple hues of ancient rocks, or lustrous highlights like water glinting in sunlight.