I am a multidisciplinary visual artist, exploring the mediums of ceramics, photography and writing in the pursuit of unveiling the space between matter and the impalpable.
Born in 1989 in Cuckfield in the United Kingdom, my life path seems to articulate an impulse for renewal in the face of the obsolete - an everlasting fold of endings and beginnings.
I am a neurodivergent artist, born with what I describe as a heightened ability to perceive and attune to fields of subtle information, or “non ordinary reality”.
In November 2019, during a three month meditation retreat, I experienced a sudden and thunderously life altering phenomena of expansion of consciousness - which catalyzed a major alteration of my perceptual reality, as well as of my experience within the human body.
Clay yields creative pathways through which I am able to anchor the processes occurring within consciousness and physical form. This medium helps bind me to terrestrial life.
I completed a BA in English Language and Literature at University College London with First Class Honors, and a Masters Degree from Sciences-Po Paris in Communication and Public Policy (English and French). My initial professional path involved working in Paris in the field of publishing - specifically children’s literature and spirituality.
During this time, I was also the Parisian correspondent for the former ArtLife Magazine, writing exhibition reviews as well as several poetic pieces. I studied photography and sold prints of my work through my website.
In 2015 I made the decision to pursue an artistic vocation. I undertook five years of training and apprenticeship in ceramic techniques in Europe (France, Spain and Greece). I began studying ceramics in the ceramics town of Vallauris (South of France) through an apprenticeship in wheel throwing and glazing techniques, and then followed a training in Spain with the ceramic Master Jose Mariscal Paneque in crystalline glaze techniques.
While living on the island of Crete, I was fortunate to learn from a ceramic master of the traditional village of Margarites, among a family of ceramicists and archeological researchers who have retrieved ancient Minoan methods of ceramic craft, and are devoting themselves to their restoration and transmission.
I recently trained with a Korean Onggi Master, Kwak Kyungtae, with the aspiration of continuously expanding the realm of my technical possibilities.
I feel a profound respect for the object and concept of the ceramic vessel, the abundance of shapes and forms through which it has manifested across all regions of the world, and the scope of its applications and purpose. I am also fascinated by mythology and stories of ancient worlds and civilisations - ranging from Egyptian and Tibetan cosmology and legends, to the myths of Atlantis and Lemuria.
My work with ceramics elaborates a realm of dialogue between form and the essence of form - between the visible and the invisible.
Today, I live and work from my studio in the village of Le Tignet in the South East of France. I live a contemplative life, where I regularly seek immersion in the wilderness and space for solitude and silence, so as to connect deeply with the world.
