I started my creative life as a potter, throwing mugs and jugs and casseroles. I was at one with clay and could not wait to get up each day and go to the studio. I moved into making art pieces and some fourteen years later was producing pieces such as the one in the photo. I fell in love with lustre work and gold leaf and worked only in black glazes thus being a foil for the light that was brought into the pieces by the gold additions. I showed in galleries and exhibitions from Brisbane to Melbourne, was a finalist in the Fletcher Challenge Award in New Zealand, was published in Craft Arts and in a book of modern craftspeople. My works are held in public and private collections. It was a busy and satisfying journey. I stopped at one stage for four years and on the death of my husband I moved back into ceramics. I loved the lifestyle and the incredibly talented and interesting people I met. I had been born with an extra rib in my neck and it caused me much pain over the years and finally I sold the kiln and moved into textiles. It is all just a journey really, a grand adventure, no matter what the media one works in. I still dream some nights that I am over the wheel and the clay is running through my fingers.
