Pattern is our visual language, a way to navigate a complex world. We naturally seek connections between objects, people, or even fleeting moments, to make sense our surroundings. Often, these patterns are so subtle they go unnoticed, yet we feel their continuity, like an unbroken thread just beneath the surface. Revealing this connective tissue between form and its surroundings fuels my practice.

Drawing inspiration from a landscape rich with structures from architecture to textile construction, my ceramic sculptures distill form to its essence, revealing a slightly brutal beauty and the interplay between surface and structure. Rather than mimicking pattern, I abstract it, allowing it to shift from its original source. Through repetition and methodical sequencing, form and pattern emerge organically from the building process itself. Nothing is superfluous. My sculptures may hint at the windows of building or a warped thread on a loom yet in a different context, become something wholly new.

 Translucency and light play a vital role in my work. My forms explore space that is simultaneously contained and porous, as if revealing the skeletal form that remains after the outer layers are peeled away. This relationship with space is as crucial to shaping the form as pattern is to illuminating its essence.

Weaving form with such a malleable material as clay is central to my art.  It’s responsive and transformative, recording my gestures and driving an intuitive creative process. Clay guides a dance between hand and head, often moderating the form to its whim. It has a weighty permanence, and yet, carries a sense of fragility and porousness. I embrace this tension, exploring these contradictions and pushing the material to its limits, always searching for the precious edge to rest before collapse.  My hope is the work invites the viewer to pause in that space and linger with curiosity. It’s that pursuit that propels and reminds me that working with clay is a constant practice of letting go in order to be revealed.