I live in Cape Town, my adopted city, where I have fabricated a life for myself first in textile design, now in ceramics.
I make hand-built sculptural vessels and plates in earthenware clay. Earthenware is a primeval, ageless material that carries ancient social and natural significance in its very grains.

My primary way of thinking is drawing; it has been so throughout my life. Ceramics provide a foundation with its own layers of meaning and function to my drawing and colour explorations. I use multiple layers and combinations of glazes, underglazes, and oxides. My glazing techniques range from optimistically experimental to strictly old-school; from wildly emotional to calculated, austere precision.

My African environment – urban, wild, real, imagined, mythological, terrifying, splendid, ordinary – is my inspiration always. Even when, perhaps especially when, it appears least in evidence.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2018 CSA Corobrick National Ceramics Biennale. Rust en Vrede Gallery Durbanville. 18 Nov 2018 to 4 December 2018.

2019 CSA Western Cape Regional Exhibition. Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town, 6 to 13 Oct 2019.
Vertes & Vlaktes Group Exhibition. Kunshuis Art Gallery, Clanwilliam. 6 September 2019 to November 2019.

2020 Fynarts Select Hermanus. Creative Collection Contemporary Ceramics curated by Liz Coates. Online exhibition. hermanusfynarts.co.za. 5 to 16 June 2020.
Artvark Gallery Online Charity Auction. artvark.org. 3 to 5 June 2020.
Contemporary Ceramics Pop-up Collection curated by Liz Coates. The Courtyard, Hermanus. 29 Aug to 18 Sept2020.
Tiny Treasures. Art B, Bellville. Online Exhibition art.b.co.za. 1 to 30 Sept. 2020.
Blended. Art B Gallery, Library Centre Bellville. 10 Oct 2020.

2021 Trifecta. with Sarel Petrus and Shenaz Mahomed, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. 20 April – 19 May 2021.
Violent Femmes. Group show, Art B Gallery, Bellville. 5 – 26 June 2021.
A Touch of Gold. Group exhibition curated by Liz Coates. Hermanus Fynarts Festival. Windsor Hotel, Hermanus. 11 June 2021.
Tiny Treasures. Art B, Bellville. Online exhibition, 3 July – end August 2021.
Risque/Riskant. Saronsberg Kunsteater, Tulbach. Curated by Theo Kleynhans. 25 September – 13 November 2021.
CeraMix. Art B, Bellville. 2 – 29 October. Available online until 30 November 2021.
Totem. Design Afrika new collection. Union House, 25 Commercial Street, Cape Town. 7 October 2021.
CSA Western Cape Regional Exhibition. Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville, 14 Nov to 10 Dec 2021.
WonkiWare Paint a Plate Charity Exhibition. Prince Albert Gallery, Prince Albert. 18 December 2021.

2022 CSA Half Century Celebration. Clay Museum, Rust en Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. May 2022.
Tiny Treasures. Art B, Bellville. 4 June 2022.
There is no Ordinary. Group Exhibition curated by Liz Coates. Hermanus Fynarts Festival. 11 June 2022.
Cuaderno. Group Exhibition, Art B, Bellville. September 2022.
CeraMIX:Texture. Art B, Bellville. 15 October 2022.

2023 Heads and Tails. Art Soko, 501 Tollgate Centre, 12 Ravenscraig Road Woodstock Cape Town. 11 February 2023.
Earth, Wind and Fire. Hermanus Fynarts Festival.
CeraMix 2023. Art B, Bellville. 3 October – 29 October 2023.
Cobalt and Indigo. Kim Sacks Gallery, Johannesburg. 11 November 2023 – mid-January 2024.
Uncurated. Art B, Bellville. 2 December 2023 – 20 January 2024.

2024 Smorgasbord. ArtVark Gallery, Kalk Bay. 2 May – 6 June 2024.
Compressing Materiality. Ebony/Curated, Franschhoek. 18 May – 30 June 2024.