‘Reap only what you sow’ – Ceramic Shoes (Stoneware clay with oxides and glaze).

Those of you who have visited my website before will know that I have labelled myself a ‘ceramist’ in recent years as, since completing a two year Ceramic Diploma in 2007, this has been my primary discipline.  I am known best for ceramic shoes although I also make vessels and mixed media pieces.  Shoes have had a strong ethnographical, historical and cultural significance throughout history and continue to exert a hold over us.  As in fairy stories and tales of old they seem to offer the possibility of transformation – the notion that by owning them and / or wearing them we can somehow become something ‘other’.  This holds endless possibilities in terms of creativity and imagination. These pieces are often inspired by nursery rhymes, poetry, song lyrics or other literary quotes.