A little summary of some of my work from 2024.

The learning curve has been steep and its good to recap and reflect on this year.

This Christmas I took part in my first Christmas market where I sold a selection of my work.

Thank you to everyone at Friends of Donhead at Donhead Preparatory School, who organised this event, and to everyone who supported me, bought something, chatted to me or helped me set up.

In December 2023, I completed the first module of my Ceramics diploma at West Dean College.

Our brief for the following term was to make a piece of sculpture responding to a garden environment.

I decided to make a three-tier working fountain for my own garden - an ambitious project, documented on Instagram. The highlights are shared below.

… teaching a range of ceramics classes to adults and children in my garden studio, while learning and experimenting with this incredible art form as I study for my ceramics diploma. I combine this with my work as artist educator as part of the Courtauld Gallery learning team.

Children's Art School has been very quiet over the last few years, but never went away.

I have been leading an Art and DT department at a local prep school while colleagues kept our founding After-School Art Club at Pelham Primary School thriving.

Covid-19 meant that our art workshop activity had to stop, and was life changing for me in many ways, as it meant that Children's Art School became reformulated in my mind and is re-born as Hags Pottery.

In 2020, as COVID19 hit, we moved into our new house. Things did not go quite as smooth as planned with our planned renovation, but, as we turned our lives on their heads, a new idea for how to live our lives was born. (More on this in another blog post)

As the house renovation took place – my little studio gathered momentum at the bottom of the garden – it was first a storage unit while we moved house but was soon transformed into Hags Pottery. You can see its progress through pictures on my Instagram account and through the captions below.

Teacher/educator/curator/mother/artist

I am very excited to share  my most recent article

A Professional Journey: Teacher/educator/curator/mother/artist has just been published by engage, the national society for gallery education.