I’m a Kamberri/Canberra-based ceramic artist. My work draws on my local landscape: the gentle contours of the Brindabella ranges, the night sky over Canberra, and the boats nestled in the Lake Burley Griffin shoreline.

I came to Canberra - and to ceramics - after a lifetime of living and working in Asia and the U.S. as a scholar and policy advisor on Japan and on legal and regulatory reform in Asia.

My artistic journey includes decades of practising Japanese Tea and being designated a Tea Master in the Urasenke tradition. I designed and built a Japanese-inspired contemporary Tea room (‘Fushiki-an’), where I offer Tea experiences and curate art works related to Tea.

My tea practice influences my work as a potter. I focus on the feeling a vessel creates when it moves from my hand to the hands of the person receiving it.

I love wood firing - the raw and very physical collaboration with local environment and weather. My textured surfaces recall the marks left by human hands and tools on Australia’s landscape.