After my apprenticeship with Mark Hewitt ended in 2018, I worked in potteries in England and Thailand. In 2019, I did a residency at the Shigaraki Cultural Park in Japan, and followed this with a residency at the North Carolina Pottery Center in Seagrove.

Over the past few years, I’ve become more interested in using local wild materials in my craft. This begins with the clay. In North Carolina, I began mixing my own clay and also experimenting with local rocks to make glazes.

In 2020, I began the MFA program in ceramics at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. Over three years there, I studied glaze chemistry using local materials. I took geology classes, which helped me focus my research. My thesis show was titled “Tea time with the Devil”; it showcased four glazes made primarily with one local granite from Devil’s Playground in northwestern Utah. Here’s an article I wrote about it if you want to delve deeper!

During our time in Utah, my wife, Lauren, and I had two girls (well, she did most of the work). Juniper is our older girl and Flora is the younger one. They keep me as busy as the pottery and I love them and Lauren soooo much.

From summer 2023-2025 I was the artist in residence at Pleasant Hill Pottery in Oregon which is a program focused on wood firing. I also taught ceramics at Lane Community College during this time, as well as various workshops. 

In July 2025 my family and I moved back across the pond to England. We have settled in St Ives, Cornwall. I am thrilled to be working at the Leach Pottery as part of the Learning and Participation team. Cornwall is a beautiful place to be and my family is loving it so far.