Ironstone Mine Clay Vessels
Thrown from clay dug from an abandoned ironstone mine on the North Yorkshire Moors (below), these vessels are shaped by the land that made them. Using raw materials found on site, I let the natural textures and colours rise to the surface, echoing the rusted remnants and silence of the landscape.
In reworking the material, I am interested in how these artworks can hold onto fragments, and be in conversation with their own history as quiet markers of time and transformation. The vessels become containers of place, holding within them the memory of a site shaped by extraction, abandonment and slow regrowth.