About Me

 

 

Welcome to my web site. Originally from Wales, I now live in South London with my dog, Dylan, and where I have my pottery studio. My “day job” is as an actor. Lots of theatre with bits of TV mixed in. I recently played the Director General of the BBC in a Netflix film about the notorious Prince Andrew interview.

I like to make pots that can be used. To me everything tastes better from a handmade mug or bowl.

My favourite colour is blue and my glaze inspiration usually reflects the seashores of Gower in South Wales where I grew up. The colour combinations of the sea, rocks, sand, grasses and seaweed are endless. I love them!

My first pottery experience was with Mrs. Button aged 8. Me being 8. Not Mrs Button. I started again just before Covid with Monday morning lessons at The Kiln Rooms with @josephludkin. I became obsessed. I set up a small studio at home in Clapham and invested in a kiln. I also applied for The Great Pottery Throwdown. After numerous auditions I headed to Stoke and started filming episode 1. My Throwdown journey was short but sweet. I learned so much. Flatbacks, gluggle jugs and ancient woodland inspired water features. It was a great experience.

Since Throwdown I have kept learning and experimenting. My favourite thing to make is bowls of every shape and size. I have made memory vases galore that have made the recipient cry, dog and cat bowls with the appropriate fur colour and tail shape and garden gnomes in both full highland dress and high sheriff breeches and frock coat. I have welcomed people to my studio for taster sessions and met other local potters who need some kiln space.

I hope you enjoy looking at my pots.

 

My Studio:

All my work is hand crafted from a small home studio. I make anything from garden gnomes to beakers and plates, bowls and vases. Recently I extended the old outdoor toilet in the garden and built a kiln room. 

 

Glazing:

In the main I use brush on glazes from all sorts of suppliers. I I love layering different glazes, especially on bowls, to create land and sea scapes. 

I don’t make pots in bulk. Every piece I make is unique. Enjoying the process is as important as feeling proud at the outcome. Making pots and especially opening the kiln after a glaze firing is the best and the worst. That sounds negative but it’s not. I start off with an idea which weeks, sometimes months, later emerges from the kiln. Every compression, every extra bit of wedging and every layer of glaze will show in the finished piece of work. It is the ultimate living proof or what you reap, you sow. Incredible and totally unexpected things happen in pottery. That's the joy.