The work

Ceramic tiles are tough. There’s a reason they survive 2,000 years beneath passing feet.

The ones I use are gorgeous, expressive and they’re so beautifully matt they draw the breath out of you but they aren’t intended for making art.

Yet they are just right for making art.

How can such a permanent medium reflect a moment in time? When you get it wrong it’s so disheartening, the tiles have to be chipped away and re-laid with painstaking care. When you get it right they reveal facets that I don’t think paint alone can find.

Background

After a career delivering the creativity of others I finally picked up a pencil and drew my first portrait in my late 40s. Then it was charcoal. Then acrylics, oils, most recently ceramic tiles. Somewhere along the line I started a degree in Fine Art Practice and moved from London to the creative hotbed of St Leonards on Sea.

I’ve shown my work in London at a Saatchi corporate exhibition, and in Hastings at Coast Curation 2023 and Façade Collective 2024.