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I don’t want to say too much at the moment except that I am really excited by this project. In summary, this is what we are up to:

I have a passion for the environment and deep concerns for the casual way that we treat it. The reckless use of the planet’s resources and the lackadaisical attitude that we have to waste worries me greatly. If, through my art, I can facilitate greater awareness of the need for us to live in harmony with our World, I will have achieved something extremely important to me. This project is a response to beach waste. Discarded objects will be described in terms of a set of artworks and illustrated stories. Workshops will enable the public to engage with the objects and facilitate conversations. The project involves collaboration with a creative writer, an illustrator, an actor and the public to imagine what future explorers might make of objects discovered from the Anthropocene. This approach will, hopefully, enable discussions about our current attitude to our environment and whether we need to make adjustments.

More details will emerge over the coming weeks, including ways in which people can get involved. So keep watching . . . .

The exhibition is called Materials Matter. It is on until 13th March so you have not missed it yet and it is well worth a visit.

I am also involved in Make Southwest’s Green Maker Initiative and this has been very exciting. I had a day here recently when I was filmed in the studio and interviewed about how sustainable my practice is. I have to say that I am well aware that it is difficult to be fully sustainable when you work in ceramics, and I am certainly not perfect, but I do what I can and the whole point of the film – which will be launched during the Green Makers Initiative take-over of the Mill at Bovey Tracey – is that it starts a conversation.

The big thing, which has taken up most of my time in recent months, is that I have embarked upon a Masters level degree with Falmouth University. It is online and part-time but it seems to fill most of every week! I am loving the rigour and the challenge. This term is all about collaboration and that is proving very exciting. I have built a Creative Team of four, which includes my daughter and two of her friends and we have a very exciting project in the pipeline.

I will try and post here on a regular basis to let people know where to look but for now, just as a taster . . . . Click here.