I am very influenced by the environment. I’m creating a ‘silver landscape for the table’, that’s my mantra. Whenever I am out in the environment I am really interested in how I can take influence from that and change it slightly and bring it from the outside to the inside.

Mum and Dad aren’t getting any younger, and I just had this realisation one day that if I don’t learn to enamel, this skill could go from my family and I couldn’t do it on my own. I really enjoyed learning the process and how I can add colour to my work.

I made a piece for a lady who had her late parents’ silver tea set. She asked me to melt it down and make something else. Those personal commissions are a lovely experience because you are working closely with someone and you watch them have such enjoyment from it.

There’s a sense of achievement when it goes right. It’s a very slow process, but having that idea in your head or drawn on a piece of paper and then taking the raw materials and working with them and seeing that piece actually being realised is what drives me forward.