Seed Pod Sculpture

I live with my husband and my daughter in the UK in a small village on the Norfolk/Cambridgeshire border. We have beautiful countryside from which to draw inspiration, and our garden also provides me with plenty of ideas. I love working with the clay. It´s flexible and yields to any design and form. I throw on the wheel and I also like to work with slabs to create different and more abstract forms. I also like to combine these methods, and I´ll often throw pieces which I then go on to manipulate or reshape in some way - sometimes adding pieces of slab work to a thrown piece. My husband is a woodturner and wood artist, and I really like amalgamating my ceramic and silk work with his wood art. I´m also a keen photographer and enjoy a wide range of art forms and media. I use a lot of the photos I´ve taken in our garden, in the countryside, along the Norfolk coastline etc. as inspiration for my various pieces, whether in clay or silk. Our website gallery & shop www.blendedmonkey.co.uk holds a more varied range of items that we have both created in our respective studios. We also have an Etsy store www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BlendedMonkey which includes different pieces to those shown on our website.