Blended Monkey

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 holds a more varied range of items that we have both created in our respective studios. We also have an Etsy store which includes different pieces to those shown on our website.

I studied Art & Design at the Falmouth School of Art & Design in 1989, and have been interested in various art forms, design and applied arts all my life. I am a member of the CPA (Craft Potters Association).

I moved to Germany when I was 20 years old, wrote and recorded my own music, opened up a shop in Munich (where I also sold my silk paintings), became a freelance translator and had my daughter … I returned to the UK about 16 years ago and continued to translate German to English from my office at home. I met my husband, Simon, 10 years ago, and we enjoy the challenge and the fun of combining our artistic disciplines.