Ochre coloured clays are collected from damn banks on the Fernbank property where I live. The clays are crushed, screened and blended with a white stoneware body to produce a number of shades and textures. These coloured clays are inlaid into the pot walls, sometimes layered and sometimes marbled to suggest landscapes.

Surface clay slip may be applied and carved back to form images such as trees, flowers, plants, insects or animals. Living on the farm in East Gippsland I am constantly inspired by nature.

My pots are all hand built using moulding, coiling, slabbing and modelling techniques. Working in this way, the forms slowly evolve.

All works are high temperature fired (1300°C) to allow some of the very ancient oriental glazes to mature. Glazes have a history of up to nine hundred years. Each pot is fired twice, first a bisque firing (1000°C) then a glaze firing (1300°C). All works spend at least 20 hours in the wood fired kilns. Timber for the firings is collected from surrounding farms.