Welcome

Welcome

A Rewilding of the Heart

I live in Bantry, West Cork—remote, beautiful and inspiring.

I grew up by the sea. Surrounded by woodlands, wildlife and the freedom of long days outside. Back then, I thought this was simply how life was . The Curlew’s cry would always echo across the mud flats at the edges of land and sea. Children would forever chase the little Common Blue butterfly and bees and wildflowers would forever belong to one another.

But what once felt eternal is now under threat and even being forgotten…

I miss the call of the Curlew. I miss the wild abundance of nature and the richness of life that once wrapped around us naturally. My ceramics are a small way to honour that world. They are quiet offerings, memories in clay. A hope for reconnection. A gesture of love. A gentle re-wilding of the heart.

I love texture. It reminds me of the roughness and beauty of a tree bark or a time etched rock. Nothing in nature is left unmarked including us.

Clay allows me to explore. To layer and scrape away. To build up and create depth or add colour . It can be weathered with oxides, chiselled, etched and drawn upon. I blend my own base colours and add clay harvested locally. I never know how a piece will look until it comes out of the kiln. sometimes it works and sometimes it’s not at all what I expected! The wheel of life and clay keeps turning & I keep learning.