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I feel a little bit like a butterfly – or possibly a dormouse – emerging in spring as the weather slowly warms up! I have been making very little since the end of the MA and have found it hard to share what has been going on but, in the quiet of my studio, ideas have been forming and, gradually, things have been starting to developing. At last I am beginning to feel a frisson of excitement about how the work is coming together.

The current project is in collaboration with a wonderful group of people who are working to rewild a small area of land called Blacknest Fields in Hampshire with incredible success. My part in the project is to create work for an exhibition of photographs and ceramics to draw attention to their efforts and to encourage more people to get involved. It is a fantastically optimistic and uplifting project and one that is very dear to my own heart. I will be publishing more about it as the work develops but, for now, here are a few hints to whet your appetites:

is that you get to know what people really think. The last two and a half weeks have been amazing. I have had conversations about so many things. I could not begin to list them all!

But another of the best things has been spending time with the work and remember what it was during the making that was important.

There is a message about habitat loss and our impact on the planet. There were found materials involved. But at the end of the day I think the big one for me is ‘why clay’?

When I began the Masters program I was told that the tutor did not expect me to be still working with clay by the end. He didn’t know me very well! He also didn’t seem to know clay very well. He didn’t understand about the feel of the material, the magic of the kiln, the endless possibilities which had to be explored. Clay is intoxicating – it has so many ways to express itself. Below are 9 close up images from the exhibition. 9 ways that porcelain will behave with other materials. The options are almost endless.