About

I have been making pots for over 40 years. I first became interested in pottery at secondary school and obtained an O level in pottery. I intermittently potted at evening classes over the next 20 years.

I trained as a doctor and became a paediatric anaesthetist working at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. After seeing an article in a local newspaper about Richard Phethean, a local potter in Oxfordshire who ran workshops I decided I needed to spend more time potting. I set up my own small workshop in 2006. Since then I have been gradually developing my potting style. I am mainly an earthenware potter using coloured slips with a clear glossing glaze fired in an electric kiln. I donate a third of may sales from my pots to the Oxford Children’s Hospital Charity. I am now retired as a doctor and aim to spend more of my time just making better pots!

In recent years I have also started working with stoneware which is woodfired in Ireland and Scotland.

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Potters I particularly admire and take inspiration from are Marcus O’Mahony, Clive Bowen, Lucie Rie, Hans Coper, Dylan Bowen.