Thirty years potting has seen my work change and develop from largely domestic pottery, learned from my training with David Leach and at Dartington, to one-off, individual pieces, highly wrought and considered.

Recent work brings together design elements and ideas gleaned from the last three decades as well as my latest ceramic ruminations. Some pieces allude to their functional origins - others are more sculptural. For me the lines are now so blurred (rather like the smoked raku lines) that I prefer just to treat each piece on its own merits and hope that some of them hit the mark.

Pieces have been thrown or handbuilt in various clays: stoneware, porcelain, T-material, earthstone. I have used china clay and ball clay burnishing slips; some rare black clay brought back from India and also some pigment collected from the high desert in Colorado.

It is often said among potters that 'only we' understand what this strange lifestyle is really like, and it is certainly true that there are not many professions in which you can ring up a friend at three in the morning, knowing that they are up firing a kiln or rushing to get an exhibition ready. It makes for a close community of like-minded, slightly obsessive but generally good-natured souls that it is a privilege to be part of.