My main love is ceramics and I love the natural qualities that the various clays have when fired.  Such as slip cast Porcelain having a beautiful purity, translucency and femininity that seems to accentuate the elegant designs.  I love the differing challenges that working with the different clay bodies provide, using hand building and press moulding techniques.  In contrast to the porcelain, I also love the natural black basalt clays which project a stronger personality to the sculpture.  I now work with a combination of techniques.  Currently I have been working on a body of work combining other materials such as hand manipulated iron resin and iron metal along with ceramic.  This has enabled me to produce much larger work for the garden and so my ideas have been able to develop further in the way that I wish, where certain restrictions with ceramic would have held back the current sculpture.