I completed a course at Plymouth College of Art & Design after studying ceramics and jewellery in the early seventies, after leaving college I trained as a production potter at West Pottery under the guidance of Hugh West, I spent a number of years producing stoneware tableware and that discipline and attention to detail still shows in my work today.

In 1980 I set up my own workshop and started producing my own range of stoneware which was sold in galleries throughout the UK & abroad. I moved to my present workshop in 1996 which is set in 6 acres of woodland on the banks of the River Tamar in the Tamar Valley, an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Alongside producing my own work I worked as a ceramics technician & part-time lecturer at Plymouth College of Art & Design until 2000. I also taught ceramics at the College of St. Mark & St. John in Plymouth.

I moved to South East Cornwall in 2000 to be closer to the workshop and the past 35 years I have spent concentrating on the Raku process, years of trial & error have been spent trying to perfect the copper matt technique

I now produce a range of raku and have recently got back into reduction firing porcelain and stoneware.