SKETCHBOOK
Sketchbooks are used to record inspirations from the world and explore shapes and patterns that evolve from observations and musings.
Some of the sketches are inspired by a place, like those from Venice, Florence or Sicily. These sketches do not attempt to recreate a scene, rather they draw on the patterns and colours of the place to recreate a mood through the coming together of shape, colour, texture and surface.
Other sketches explore the way that gradations of colour and chromatic layering might produce trompe l’oeil and three dimensional images on the curved surface of a pot, creating a meditative state that encourages the viewer to go beyond pattern.
Over the years, the sketchbooks have become a detailed library, documenting the inspiration for each ceramic piece with the geometry of the patterns and the combinations of the different glazes and underglazes used to create individual pots.
