Jolly james tiles

These tiles were painted for a holiday home in Skegness.
They were painted using onglaze and fired to 800 degrees centigrade.

custom painted postcode coaster set

A work in progress photo.
These coaster can be painted with any locations.
They could be places that are special to you, places you have lived or worked.

Reception class baftas

This was a project done with a reception class. Working with the children on a one to one basis easch child made a lttle face from clay, pushing and pulling the clay into the shape of a face then using simple tools to add final details.
The faces were taken away by me. painted and mounted up like little baftas.

Custom painted wedding bowl

Gift box that was made to complete the gift.
It is made out of reclaimed cardboard and old maps.
Each one is unique.

Wensley fold wildlife tiles

I was commissioned to work with a class of children to produce a set of clay tiles. We did the project in stages, first drawing from life and from books, then designing, then finally making. The children made and glazed the tiles and they were intalled in a cloakroom of the school.

Keepsake leaving plate

These keepsake ceramics are painted to order.
Using pictures drawn by children from a school.
Each one is a unique, quirky truely personal gift.

montage kids drawings

These were commissioned to transfer childrens drawings into decorative, but useable dinnerware gifts.
Each one is completely hand painted and has messages to the recipent on the underside.

Keepsake leaving bowl

This one was a leaving gift to a church regular from the rest of congregation.
Using an image of the church and good will messages.

Custom painted fortune telling cup and saucer

A custom painted cup and saucer set commissioned as a gift.

Keepsake leaving plate

This plate was a leaving gift for a much loved teacher. The children drew potraits of her. I used these to decorate the piece.
These ceramics are food safe, but not dishwasher or microwave safe.

Longshaw Junior literacy mural

This was painted along a corridor in the school. The elements of popular characters were painted as if in bubbles. This image shows a section.

jolly james tiles

These tiles were painted for a holiday home in Skegness.
They are shown here in situ.

Keepsake leaving jug

A keepsake hand painted teachers leaving jug.

Decorative majolica plates

This was part of a week long project doing varoistypes of aart with all the children of the school. The plates were thrown by the children with the help of fellow artist Alastair Nicholson. They were then decorated in the majolica style with the help from me. We looked at tradional Spanish patterns and motifs and painted the designs on with underglaze stain.

Keepsake leaving bowl

This painted bowl was done for a teacher who loved purple. The school badge and an image of the school were incorporated to make it special.

Warton wildlife tiles project

I was coimmissioned to work with a class of children to produce a set of clay tiles. We did the project in stages, first drawing from life and from books, then designing, then finally making. The children made and glazed the tiles and they were intalled in a cloakroom of the school.

Faux stained glass window

This window was painted and installed in the ceiling of a school. It depicts the school crest, and the four houses of the school. it was 1.5 metres in diameter.

Keepsake leaving plate

Close up detail of the bowl.
The ceramics bowls and plated are painted both on the inside and the outside to make a complete gift.

hand made gift box

My keepsake ceramics come ready to gift with a custom made box and all the childrens pictures made into a book.

Custom painted wedding bowl

This was painted to mark the wedding of a couple and given as a gift.

Longshaw numeracy mural

This was painted along a corridor in the school. The times tables were painted in the background of counting songs.
This image shows a section of one of the panels.

Custom painted cup and saucer set.

This was painted as a gift for a customer using her chosen wording as the basis of the design.

Wensley fold baftas

This was a project done with the reception class. Working with the children on a one to one basis easch child made a lttle face from clay, pushing and pulling the clay into the shape of a face then using simple tools to add final details.
The faces were taken away by me. painted and mounted up like little baftas.

Exterior mural

This was painted in the early years playground and depicts a series of trains going through several kinds of landscape and cityscapes.

Longshaw Junior wildlife tiles

I was commissioned to work with a group of children to produce a set of clay tiles To mark the entrance to the schools wildlife garden/ We did the project in stages, first drawing from life and from books, then designing, then finally making. The children made and glazed the tiles and they were intalled on either side of the doors that exit out onto the garden.

Wensley fold wild life tiles

I was commissioned to work with a class of children to produce a set of clay tiles. We did the project in stages, first drawing from life and from books, then designing, then finally making. The children made and glazed the tiles and they were intalled in a cloakroom of the school.