artist's statement - 1
I get a lot of my inspiration from my surrounding environment, whether its my home country, Sweden, the lake-district in north England or the Scottish West Coast. It is very important to me that my making is as intuitive and natural as possible as I have never wanted the surface of my pieces to depict a conscious effort to decorate.
My vessels are small narratives of moments, memories with many layers, describing the journey of making. I often work on paper sketching ideas for surfaces that later appear when I work with clay, even though it is not an exact repetition or a particular design, more a general idea of the surfaces.
My intention is that they convey the creative journey I experience when I make them, the inexplicable joy of quiet early morning beauty and the complete gratefulness of enjoying the lushness of light summer evening grass.
Most of all I want my work to communicate the simple beauty that is all around us and that we only need to open our eyes to see in the most unexpected of places. The old and discarded have this particular, overlooked and abandoned beauty that I find has a reality to it rather than something that is obviously pretty.
Flaking paint, telegraph pole wires, rusty hinges, scribbled words on an old wall
