I visited Jersey Pottery as a child during a family vacation and I was hooked. My mother encouraged me to pursue this passion by taking me to a local workshop that run pottery classes for children. I spent all of my free time there and soon enough, while still a child myself, I was assisting the potter in his studio and with the classes he taught.

I was lucky enough to be one of the last in England to be taken as an apprentice in a workshop. I spent the next few years learning the ropes, mastering the techniques of throwing and the disciplines and routines of workshop life, basically setting the basis for my professional life.

It means that you are a bit of everything. Besides being a potter, you need to be a woodworker in order to build your own tools, you need to be able to lay bricks, work with steel, build your own kilns, and of course manage your entire activity, the sales and your social agenda.

My work and my research are very much practice-based. The external part of my pots usually features a rough texture in warm earthy colours which are somewhat inspired by my surroundings. For the inside, I am constantly experimenting with new, natural materials – for instance wood ash – to create different colour glazes.