I was born in Norwich, UK in 1948. I studied pottery at Bath Academy and Harrow School of Art and set up my first studio in Gloucestershire, England in 1972. In 1979, I moved to France and established my home and workshop in a stone built farm house in the south of Brittany.

In my work, I try to combine form, texture, natural colour and the right amount of humour.

I make saltglazed stoneware and porcelain. My production is made up of a small amount of domestic ware but I tend to concentrate on the one-off piece based around the functional form

I live in Brittany, only 10 kilometres from the standing stones at Carnac. It’s amazing really that 30 years ago I started making ceramic menhirs in stoneware and porcelain and now these megaliths are part of my landscape. There is something magical about a massive stone object standing in a meadow – one can only guess at why these monoliths were placed there and by whom. In my work I have attempted to create the feeling of the standing stone as a sculptural object.

As far as the firing technique involved in my ceramic sculptures is concerned, the salt vapour effect occurs during the smoking process. A mix of wood chips and dried seaweed is used as the combustible material and during the prolonged smoking (up to 36 hours) the natural sea salt contained in the seaweed lends a flashed and sometimes metallic finish to the surface of each piece.