Taking early retirement from business I decided to sign up for a drawing and painting course, something that I had always wanted to do but like many people never had the time.

 

I was a beginner at a rather late age but believed in the adage that you're never too late to learn. It was through my painting tutor that I discovered print making. I bought a small press for use in what was then my new small studio in our garden and joined the Leicester Print Workshop - a fabulous place with great people.

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A birthday present of a "taster" pottery day was the start of my pottery journey. I set up a studio at home and and after a few years rented a pottery at Unique Cottage Studios, Spalding where I held classes teaching some sixty adults a week.

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The opportunity to make a wide variety of forms, surface textures and glazes enables an "artistic" approach and widens creative opportunities. The clay can be treated just like any other surface on which to express yourself.

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I feel very fortunate to be where I am right now. For most of my career I was member of the "rat race." Since I discovering art and particularly pottery I am as far away from that as you can get - and that's the way I like it!