My most recent work deals with the themes of the human body, human emotions and the differences between physical scars and emotional scars.

My thoughts often lead me to consider how straight forward it is to see a physical wound heal and how you always know what stage of the healing process you are at with it. Although it may be painful and uncomfortable you know when it is getting better. “The interesting thing about pain is that it is clean. When you are finished experiencing pain, it is over. You cannot reexperience its sensation by remembering it.1” With emotional pain and scarring it appears to be a completely different story. People may feel like they are recovering from a trauma but all of a sudden and without warning they may become emotional, even hysterical, when they are reminded of the emotional pain they experienced in the past. How do you know when you are better? Will you ever recover?

The themes that drive my work are explored in a variety of different media including photography, drawing and ceramic work. Primary research for this on-going project was conducted with the use of macro photography. I wanted to begin with the real human body and see what abstract landscapes I could create. It was absorbing to see how abstracted and unrecognisable the human body and flesh became when photographed under such magnification. This fed directly into my work in the ceramics studio, helping me to discover interesting surface textures on the clay body.

Throughout my practice I aim to gain important information from my primary sources, in this case the human body, and translate that information into clay. I do this by using a stylised and form-based approach to the clay. I constantly keep in mind the original form of the subject I am dealing with as I am working with the clay but I also let the clay guide me to the final form. For this on-going project it has been essential that something of the inside space of the object come through to the surface, merging the emotions with the outer body. I thoroughly enjoy experiencing the evolution of the malleable work as I guide it to its final static state and look forward to continuing my practice in new and interesting ways.