I’m a photographer by trade.Discovering the joy of hand building pots out of clay was like finding treasure in my garden, like it had always been there , I just had to dig it up .I’m an analogue photographer at heart and a printer so when my job went digital I missed the physical making of prints and needed to find another creative outlet using my hands . I live mostly in the Cotswolds these days and have converted a lean to victorian greenhouse into a dining room.It is the perfect spot on a summer’s day to work, write and create. And so it began a couple of years ago now that I used this idyllic place to create my pots .I’ve called my company Be Still because I have found making pots to be such an absorbing and slow process that it creates a very still atmosphere . That stillness feels like a rare and special thing to treasure . I am now in the process of moving my pottery studio to a permanent location in some recently converted old sheds in my vegetable garden. I never plan a pot , it’s a very organic process which evolves in my hands . Each pot is a one off and although there are variations along a theme they cannot be identically replicated . People tell me that they have personalities which I feel too .I am always surprised when I have stepped away from the process of making them how much personality they have taken on .